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2d dam break problem

Asked by Stefan Kurzbach

Hello all,

is it possible to simulate an advancing wet/dry element front in a fixed mesh using the existing implementation? An example is the solution of a dam break problem with 2d depth-averaged shallow water equations. Initially the mesh is completely dry. After the dam break, elements are included in the simulation once they become wet.

Has anybody worked on a similar problem?

Best regards
Stefan

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Anders Logg (logg) said : 		#1

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:14:40AM -0000, Stefan Kurzbach wrote:
> New question #115533 on DOLFIN:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/dolfin/+question/115533
>
> Hello all,
>
> is it possible to simulate an advancing wet/dry element front in a fixed mesh using the existing implementation? An example is the solution of a dam break problem with 2d depth-averaged shallow water equations. Initially the mesh is completely dry. After the dam break, elements are included in the simulation once they become wet.
>
> Has anybody worked on a similar problem?
>
> Best regards
> Stefan

There's no automatic support for that so some manual work would have
to be involved. I suggest using a MeshFunction to mark which cells are
active and assemble only over those (using dx(0) or dx(1) in the form)
and then call A.ident_zeros() to insert 1 on the diagonal for the
inactive dofs so that you can solve the linear system. The inactive
dofs will then always be zero.

--
Anders

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