A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping Dambreach
Numerical simulation of unsteady free surface flows using depth averaged equations that consider the presence of initial discontinuities has been often reported for situations dealing with dam break flow. The usual approach is to assume a sudden removal of the gate at the dam location. Additionally,...
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description | Numerical simulation of unsteady free surface flows using depth averaged equations that consider the presence of initial discontinuities has been often reported for situations dealing with dam break flow. The usual approach is to assume a sudden removal of the gate at the dam location. Additionally, in order to prevent any kind of dam risk in earthen dams, it is very interesting to include the possibility of a progressive dam breach leading to dam overtopping or dam piping so that predictive hydraulic models benefit the global analysis of the water flow. On the other hand, when considering a realistic large domain with complex topography, a fine spatial discretization is mandatory. Hence, the number of grid cells is usually very large and, therefore, it is necessary to use parallelization techniques for the calculation, with the use of Graphic Processing Units (GPU) being one of the most efficient, due to the leveraging of thousands of processors within a single device. The aim of the present work is to describe an efficient GPU-based 2D shallow water flow solver (RiverFlow2D-GPU) supplied with the formulation of internal boundary conditions to represent dynamic dam failure processes. The results obtained indicate that it is able to develop a transient flow analysis taking into account several scenarios. The efficiency of the model is proven in two complex domains, leading to >76× faster simulations compared with the traditional CPU computation. |
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spelling | doaj.art-c9f939669fa6437185a1a1b7242efd532023-11-19T13:26:14ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412023-09-011518326810.3390/w15183268A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping DambreachJavier Fernández-Pato0Sergio Martínez-Aranda1Pilar García-Navarro2Fluid Dynamic Technologies I3A, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, SpainFluid Dynamic Technologies I3A, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, SpainFluid Dynamic Technologies I3A, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, SpainNumerical simulation of unsteady free surface flows using depth averaged equations that consider the presence of initial discontinuities has been often reported for situations dealing with dam break flow. The usual approach is to assume a sudden removal of the gate at the dam location. Additionally, in order to prevent any kind of dam risk in earthen dams, it is very interesting to include the possibility of a progressive dam breach leading to dam overtopping or dam piping so that predictive hydraulic models benefit the global analysis of the water flow. On the other hand, when considering a realistic large domain with complex topography, a fine spatial discretization is mandatory. Hence, the number of grid cells is usually very large and, therefore, it is necessary to use parallelization techniques for the calculation, with the use of Graphic Processing Units (GPU) being one of the most efficient, due to the leveraging of thousands of processors within a single device. The aim of the present work is to describe an efficient GPU-based 2D shallow water flow solver (RiverFlow2D-GPU) supplied with the formulation of internal boundary conditions to represent dynamic dam failure processes. The results obtained indicate that it is able to develop a transient flow analysis taking into account several scenarios. The efficiency of the model is proven in two complex domains, leading to >76× faster simulations compared with the traditional CPU computation.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/18/3268finite volumesshallow-water equationsRiverFlow2D-GPUdam breachpiping |
spellingShingle | Javier Fernández-Pato Sergio Martínez-Aranda Pilar García-Navarro A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping Dambreach Water finite volumes shallow-water equations RiverFlow2D-GPU dam breach piping |
title | A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping Dambreach |
title_full | A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping Dambreach |
title_fullStr | A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping Dambreach |
title_full_unstemmed | A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping Dambreach |
title_short | A 2D Hydraulic Simulation Model Including Dynamic Piping and Overtopping Dambreach |
title_sort | 2d hydraulic simulation model including dynamic piping and overtopping dambreach |
topic | finite volumes shallow-water equations RiverFlow2D-GPU dam breach piping |
url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/18/3268 |
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