Fang Kezhao
Professor Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates Supervisor of Master's Candidates
Gender:Male
Alma Mater:Dalian University of Technology
Degree:Doctoral Degree
School/Department:Dalian University of Technology
Discipline:Port, Coastal and Offshore Engineering
Business Address:Room B304, Ocean Engineering Research Institute
E-Mail:kfang@dlut.edu.cn
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Indexed by:Journal Papers
Date of Publication:2016-01-01
Journal:JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH
Included Journals:SCIE
Volume:32
Issue:1
Page Number:164-171
ISSN No.:0749-0208
Key Words:Solitary wave; well-balanced; wave breaking; wet-dry fronts; MUSTA scheme
Abstract:A numerical model, which solves the horizontal two-dimensional fully nonlinear Boussinesq equations using a well-balanced shock-capturing scheme, is developed and used to investigate wave transformation in a fringing reef environment. The governing equations are first reformulated into a conservative form, and a Godunov-type finite volume method is then used to deal with the convective parts, while the remaining terms are discretized using the finite difference method. Special attention focuses on obtaining a well-balanced state between numerical flux and the source term to model moving wet-dry fronts accurately. The third-order Runge-Kutta scheme with the strong stability preserving property and adaptive time step is used for time marching. After being validated against the analytical solution of exact solitary wave propagation, the proposed model is run to simulate solitary wave transformation over two-dimensional and three-dimensional reefs, and the computed results are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data.
Dr. Kezhao Fang is an associated professor (Phd Supervisor) with the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering in Dalian University of Technology. His research interests include (but not limitted to) developing numerical models for ocean and coastal waves, coastal (reef) hydrodynamics, coastal morphology. He is a member of IAHR and an invited reviewer for Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Coastal Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, and etc. He has got a total of more than 80 papers published, the details of the papers also could be found via researchgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kezhao_Fang2
