Abstract
This paper illustrates a novel two-dimensional moving boundary problem describing the evolution of a sediment fan in a closed depositional basin. This problem is analogous to a point source melting problem with zero latent heat and a space dependent melting temperature. A simple time explicit numerical solution scheme is developed. The performance of the solution is checked against measurements taken from a sediment fan build in a laboratory scale experiment. Results indicate that the proposed model has promise but further work is required to characterize the nature of the sediment diffusion.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 13-20 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Computational and Experimental Methods |
Volume | 10 |
State | Published - 2004 |
Event | Seventh International Conference on Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems, Moving Boundaries VII - Santa Fe, NM, United States Duration: Nov 4 2003 → Nov 6 2003 |