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Two-fluid barotropic models for powder-snow avalanche flows

Classical Physics 2020-02-20 v1 Analysis of PDEs Computational Physics Fluid Dynamics Geophysics

Abstract

In the present study we discuss several modeling issues of powder-snow avalanche flows. We take a two-fluid modeling paradigm. For the sake of simplicity, we will restrict our attention to barotropic equations. We begin the exposition by a compressible model with two velocities for each fluid. However, this model may become non-hyperbolic and thus, represents serious challenges for numerical methods. To overcome these issues, we derive a single velocity model as a result of a relaxation process. This model can be easily shown to be hyperbolic for any reasonable equation of state. Finally, an incompressible limit of this model is derived.

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@article{arxiv.0906.2118,
  title  = {Two-fluid barotropic models for powder-snow avalanche flows},
  author = {Yannick Meyapin and Denys Dutykh and Marguerite Gisclon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.2118},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

14 pages, 1 figure. Accepted to Springer series "Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design". Other authors papers can be downloaded at http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/~dutykh/

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