Imperial College London

ProfessorMatthewPiggott

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering

Professor of Computational Geoscience and Engineering
 
 
 
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4.82Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Clare:2021:10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104658,
author = {Clare, MCA and Percival, JR and Angeloudis, A and Cotter, CJ and Piggott, MD},
doi = {10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104658},
journal = {Computers and Geosciences},
pages = {1--13},
title = {Hydro-morphodynamics 2D modelling using a discontinuous Galerkin discretisation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104658},
volume = {146},
year = {2021}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB - The development of morphodynamic models to simulate sediment transport accurately is a challenging process that is becoming ever more important because of our increasing exploitation of the coastal zone, as well as sea-level rise and the potential increase in strength and frequency of storms due to a changing climate. Morphodynamic models are highly complex given the non-linear and coupled nature of the sediment transport problem. Here we implement a new depth-averaged coupled hydrodynamic and sediment transport model within the coastal ocean model Thetis, built using the code generating framework Firedrake which facilitates code flexibility and optimisation benefits. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first full morphodynamic model including both bedload and suspended sediment transport which uses a discontinuous Galerkin based finite element discretisation. We implement new functionalities within Thetis extending its existing capacity to model scalar transport to modelling suspended sediment transport, incorporating within Thetis options to model bedload transport and bedlevel changes. We apply our model to problems with non-cohesive sediment and account for effects of gravity and helical flow by adding slope gradient terms and parametrising secondary currents. For validation purposes and in demonstrating model capability, we present results from test cases of a migrating trench and a meandering channel comparing against experimental data and the widely-used model Telemac-Mascaret.
AU - Clare,MCA
AU - Percival,JR
AU - Angeloudis,A
AU - Cotter,CJ
AU - Piggott,MD
DO - 10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104658
EP - 13
PY - 2021///
SN - 0098-3004
SP - 1
TI - Hydro-morphodynamics 2D modelling using a discontinuous Galerkin discretisation
T2 - Computers and Geosciences
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104658
UR - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000598910100001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300420306324?via%3Dihub
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/86819
VL - 146
ER -