Abstract
Sustainable coastal defense is promoted by wave-vegetation interaction that occurs in coastal zones and is able to dissipate wave energy and baffle currents. To study the complex fluid-structure interactions involved, numerical models present themselves as a suitable tool able to offer an in-depth view over the near field kinematics and dynamics. Taking into account the effect of vegetation dynamics is necessary, and often modelled through coupled fluid and structural solvers. This implies increased complexity, adaptive re-meshing tools, and numerically expensive simulations given the disparity between dimensions of the fluid domain and the very thin structural elements. The aim of this work is to present a novel numerical coupling tool based on the meshless Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, which can handle ultra-thin vegetation and resolve the vegetation kinematics without the use of any fitted parameters.
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