Of es UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO do t DIVISION DE ESTUDIOS DE POSGRADO FACULTAD DE INGENIERIA TESIS Métodos espectrales en Hidraulica QUE PRESENTA: aE oe Verduzco PARA OBTENER EL GRADO DE: DOCTORADO EN INGENIERIA (HIDRAULICA) DIRIGIDA POR: Dr Carlos Cruickshank Villanueva Ciudad Universitaria, México D.F., febrero de 1998 TESIS CON FALLA DE ORIGENSPECTRAL METHODS IN HYDRAULICS. PHD THESIS OF MOISES BEREZOWSKY VERDUZCO ABSTRACT ‘Spectral methods are presented. A trigonometrical polinomium is builtin a way that fits exactly a given function in the grid points (collocation points) The Fourier collocation method is onc of the must used given its precision and computational effcieney. Nevertheless, it has two disadvantages: a constant grid spacing is required and the boundary conditions of the differential equations Lo be solved should be periodical. Once the polynomial is ‘btained, itis relatively simple to compute numerically with high precision the derivative of the function. This is the reason why spectral methods are very convenient (o solve differential equations. In the thesis, they are applied for the solution of some differential equations from Hydraulics. ‘Aller reviewing the theoretical foundations of spectral methods, an implicit scheme is built based in Fourier collocation method. The method is applied to solve the one-dimensional transport of pollutant differential equation, The great precision of the method is shown, mainly for the computation of pure convection; better results than those reported with the common procedures of the literature are obtained with the proposed method The theory of curvilinear grid generation is used to overcome the difficulty of a non-uniform grid. Although the obtained results are not as good as those of a uniform grid, satisfactory values are sill gained ifa filter is used Thére are several ways to solve problems with non-periodical boundary conditions. In the thesis, Chebyshev collocation method ¢é-used. Iterative methods for the solution of differential equations are described. A procedure for the solution of the gradually varied flow differential equation is developed. ‘The computational resources requirements from spectral methods are higher than those of finite difference schemes used commonly in Hydraulics, Nevertheless, spectral methods have the advantage of resulting in the highest possible precision for the number of grid nodes used. In the applications described in the thesis it is shown the versatility and precision of spectral methods when applied to some problems of Hyer