Scaling and self-similarity in two-dimensional hydrodynamics

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2015-07-01

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Ercan, Ali
Kavvas, M. Levent

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The conditions under which depth-averaged two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic equations system as an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) becomes self-similar are investigated by utilizing one-parameter Lie group of point scaling transformations. Self-similarity conditions due to the 2D k-epsilon turbulence model are also investigated. The self-similarity conditions for the depth-averaged 2D hydrodynamics are found for the flow variables including the time, the longitudinal length, the transverse length, the water depth, the flow velocities in x-and y-directions, the bed shear stresses in x-and y-directions, the bed shear velocity, the Manning's roughness coefficient, the kinematic viscosity of the fluid, the eddy viscosity, the turbulent kinetic energy, the turbulent dissipation, and the production and the source terms in the k-epsilon model. By the numerical simulations, it is shown that the IBVP of depth-averaged 2D hydrodynamic flow process in a prototype domain can be self-similar with that of a scaled domain. In fact, by changing the scaling parameter and the scaling exponents of the length dimensions, one can obtain several different scaled domains. The proposed scaling relations obtained by the Lie group scaling approach may provide additional spatial, temporal, and economical flexibility in setting up physical hydraulic models in which two-dimensional flow components are important. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/100692

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CHAOS

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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4913852

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A. Ercan and M. L. Kavvas, “Scaling and self-similarity in two-dimensional hydrodynamics,” CHAOS, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/100692.