A Study of the Wave Transformation Passing over an Artificial Reef Using SPH Method

Abstract

We present some improvement methods for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method to obtain accurate solutions for surface wave propagation problems. To verify the accuracy of this method, a water tank test of wave propagation on an artificial reef is performed. As a result, simulated wave height histories agreed well with measured ones even in the case of wave breaking situations in which deformation of wave takes place strongly.