sedInterFoam 1.0: a three-phase numerical model for sediment transport applications with free surfaces
Abstract. In this paper, an Eulerian two-phase flow model, sedFoam, is extended to include an air phase together with its water and sediment phases. The numerical model called sedInterFoam is implemented using the open-source library OpenFOAM. sedInterFoam includes the previous features of sedFoam for sediment transport modeling and also solves the air–water interface using the volume-of-fluid method coupled with the waves2Foam toolbox for free-surface wave generation and absorption. Using sedInterFoam, four test cases are successfully reproduced to validate the free-surface evolution algorithm's implementation, mass conservation of sediment and fluid phases, and predictive capabilities and to demonstrate its potential in modeling a broader range of coastal applications with sediment transport dominated by surface waves.
Authors
- Julien Chauchat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5979-0620)
- Tian‐Jian Hsu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8473-3441)
- Cyrille Bonamy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3868-7090)
- Yeulwoo Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4330-0348)
- Antoine Mathieu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1607-4787)
Institutions
- Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (FR)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
- University of Delaware (US)
- Pukyong National University (KR)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Geoscientific model development
- Published
- 2025-03-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1561-2025
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.01
Funders
- National Research Foundation
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology
- Directorate for Engineering
- Directorate for Geosciences
- Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
- Office of Naval Research
- Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation