A small amplitude sinusoidal wave oscillates under surface tension. Prosperetti [24] found a solution to this initial value problem in the limit of a vanishingly small initial amplitude.
The domain size is 1x3 units, large enough to minimise the effect of boundaries (Prosperetti’s theory is valid for infinite domains).
Table 9 shows the convergence of various solvers as a function of resolution: Gerris, the marker technique of [23], Surfer [12], PROST and CLSVOF [11]. The same data is represented on Figure 84.
The time-evolution of the amplitude given by Prosperetti’s theory and Gerris (642) is given on Figure 85.
Method 82 162 322 642 1282 Gerris 0.15699 0.02824 0.00863 0.00183 0.000545 Markers 0.3018 0.0778 0.0131 0.0082 0.00645 Surfer - - 0.1168 0.0132 0.007 PROST 0.2960 0.0818 0.0069 0.0018 CLSVOF 0.3169 0.0991 0.0131 0.0033
Same test as before but with a density ratio of 10. The dynamic viscosities are identical.
Table 10 shows the convergence of various solvers as a function of resolution: Gerris, the marker technique of [23] and Surfer [12].
The time-evolution of the amplitude given by Prosperetti’s theory and Gerris (642) is given on Figure 86.
Method 82 162 322 642 1282 Gerris 0.14592 0.04236 0.00485 0.00142 0.001155 Markers 0.3593 0.1397 0.0566 0.0264 0.0148 Surfer - - 0.1233 0.0300 0.0254
Same test as before but with density and viscosity ratio corresponding to an air/water interface.
Method 82 162 322 642 1282 Gerris 0.19869 0.07505 0.01592 0.00576 0.00313
Similar to the capillary wave test case but for a pure gravity wave. The density ratio is 10. The dynamic viscosities are identical.
The time-evolution of the amplitude given by Prosperetti’s theory and Gerris (642) is given on Figure 88.
Method 82 162 322 642 1282 Gerris 0.15140 0.03248 0.00593 0.00635 0.00417707