CFD Simulation of Surge Wave Generated by Flow-Like Landslides

The damage caused by surge waves generated in water
bodies by flow-like landslides can be very high in terms of human
lives and economic losses. The complicated phenomena occurred in
this highly unsteady process are difficult to model because three
interacting phases: air, water and sediment are involved. The problem
therefore is challenging since the effects of non-Newtonian fluid
describing the rheology of the flow-like landslides, multi-phase flow
and free surface have to be included in the simulation. In this work, the
commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package FLUENT is
used to model the surge waves due to flow-like landslides. The
comparison between the numerical results and experimental data
reported in the literature confirms the accuracy of the method.

Authors:

• Liu-Chao Qiu

Keywords:

• Flow-like landslide
• surge wave
• VOF
• non-Newtonian fluids
• multi-phase flows
• free surface flow.

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