Modeling the flow in the presence of underwater vegetation

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The paper investigates the flow of an incompressible fluid in an open stream with an unequal bottom and slope. The uneven bottom is due to vegetation. The flow is modeled on the basis of the two-velocity Rakhmatulin model, in a laminar regime from zero velocity of the discrete phase. The flow of a viscous fluid in a channel with an open stream with vegetation at the bottom of the stream is considered. The results of numerical simulation of the hydrodynamic features of a two-dimensional viscous flow are presented. The Kozeny-Karman ratio is used as the force of interaction with vegetation. The methods of computational experiment are used to study the effects of non-uniformity of the fluid velocity field, which arise due to vegetation. A qualitative comparison of velocity inhomogeneities is carried out. For the numerical implementation of the resulting equation, which is a generalization of the Navier-Stokes equation, a SIMPLE-like algorithm with appropriate generalizations was used. A single algorithm is applied for the entire area, without highlighting the free and porous zone.

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