NumericalstudyontheeffectsofunevenbottomtopographyonfreakwavesChengCuin,NingChuanZhang,YuXiuYu,JingBoLiStateKeyLaboratoryofCoastalandOffshoreEngineering,DalianUniversityofTechnology,Dalian,Liaoning,ChinaarticleinfoArticlehistory:Received8May2011Accepted30June2012Availableonline5August2012Keywords:FreakwaveVOFmethodUnevenbottomtopographyWaveletanalysisabstractAnumericalmodelisbuiltbyusinganimprovedVOFmethodcoupledwithanincompressibleNavier–Stokessolver
Exploitingthemodel,thefreakwaveformationduetothedispersivefocusingmechanismisinvestigatednumericallywithoutunevenbottomsandinpresenceofunevenbottoms
Duringthefreakwavetransformationoveranunevenbottominfinitewater,combinedeffectsofshoaling,refractionandreflectioncanmodifytheexternalcharacteristicsoffreakwaves,andalsocancomplicatetheenergytrans