# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2007, 2007(Special): 419-428. doi: 10.3934/proc.2007.2007.419

## Nonlinear dynamics on centre manifolds describing turbulent floods: k-$\omega$ model

 1 Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia, Australia, Australia

Received  September 2006 Revised  May 2007 Published  September 2007

In shallow turbulent flows such as floods and tsunami vertical mixing tends to smooth out the flow characteristics in cross-sectional direction. The evolution of the average cross-flow characteristics presents considerable interest. We model such flows using the $k-\omega$ model of turbulence in the framework of the centre manifold theory. We tested the approach on an artificial diffusion problem for which an exact analytical solution is derived. Then we apply the method to model the turbulent flows and deduced the evolution equations for the average velocity, turbulent energy and its rate of dissipation.
Citation: D.J. Georgiev, A. J. Roberts, D. V. Strunin. Nonlinear dynamics on centre manifolds describing turbulent floods: k-$\omega$ model. Conference Publications, 2007, 2007 (Special) : 419-428. doi: 10.3934/proc.2007.2007.419
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