简介：Atwo-dimensional(2D)numericalmodelisdevelopedforthewavesimulationandpropagationinawaveflume.Thefluidflowisassumedtobeviscousandincompressible,andtheNavier-Stokesandcontinuityequationsareusedasthegoverningequations.Thestandardk-εmodelisusedtomodeltheturbulentflow.TheNavierStokesequationsarediscretizedusingthestaggeredgridfinitedifferencemethodandsolvedbythesimplifiedmarkerandcell(SMAC)method.Wavesaregeneratedandpropagatedusingapistontypewavemaker.Anopenboundaryconditionisusedattheendofthenumericalflume.Somestandardtests,suchasthelid-drivencavity,theconstantunidirectionalvelocityfield,theshearingflow,andthedam-breakonthedrybed,areperformedtovalidthemodel.Todemonstratethecapabilityandaccuracyofthepresentmethod,theresultsofgeneratedwavesarecomparedwithavailablewavetheories.Finally,theclusteringtechnique(CT)isusedforthemeshgeneration,andthebestconditionissuggested.