Coupled problem of dam-break flow
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Thu, 24/11/2011 16:00 |
Alexander Korobkin (UEA) |
Industrial and Applied Mathematics Seminar  |
DH 1st floor SR |
| Initial stage of the flow with a free surface generated by a vertical wall moving from a liquid of finite depth in a gravitational field is studied. The liquid is inviscid and incompressible, and its flow is irrotational. Initially the liquid is at rest. The wall starts to move from the liquid with a constant acceleration. It is shown that, if the acceleration of the plate is small, then the liquid free surface separates from the wall only along an exponentially small interval. The interval on the wall, along which the free surface instantly separates for moderate acceleration of the wall, is determined by using the condition that the displacements of liquid particles are finite. During the initial stage the original problem of hydrodynamics is reduced to a mixed boundary-value problem with respect to the velocity field with unknown in advance position of the separation point. The solution of this problem is derived in terms of complete elliptic integrals. The initial shape of the separated free surface is calculated and compared with that predicted by the small-time solution of the dam break problem. It is shown that the free surface at the separation point is orthogonal to the moving plate. Initial acceleration of a dam, which is suddenly released, is calculated. | |||