3D NUMERICAL PREDICTION FOR TRANSPORTATION AND ACCUMULATION OF DRIFT-WOODS WITH T-TYPE SOLID MODELS

Abstract

A computational method has been developed to predict the movements of driftwoods transported by three-dimensional free-surface flows. A T-type solid model is introduced into the prediction method, MICS, which deals with a free-surface flow including floating objects as a multiphase flow field. In the T-type model, a driftwood is represented by multiple tetrahedron elements and its volume, mass and inertial tensors are accurately represented. The contact forces are evaluated with the contact-spheres distributed near the surfaces. The MICS with the T-type model was applied to experimental results and it was shown that the movements and accumulation of driftwoods are reasonably predicted by the present method.