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Lagrangian block hydrodynamics for environmental fluid mechanics simulations

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The Lagrangian block hydrodynamics is formulated based on the block advection of fluid. By enforcing the mass and momentum conservations on the Lagrangian mesh, the numerical oscillation problem encountered in the classical Eulerian computational methods is circumvented. A large number of the previously computationally difficult problems in environmental fluid mechanics are successfully simulated using the method. Examples of these simulations are described in this paper.

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Tan, Lw., Chu, V.H. Lagrangian block hydrodynamics for environmental fluid mechanics simulations. J Hydrodyn 22 (Suppl 1), 627–632 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058(10)60009-1

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