| We are interested in the numerical simulation of the catch process at the end part of a trawl. The study of previous works emphasizes the lack of a convincing flow model. The need of a physical understanding of the flow leads us to perform experimental campaigns around a rigid cod-end net model, whose results are given in the manuscript. We propose a model based on the Navier-Stokes/Brinkman equations coupled to an equation for the turbulent kinetic energy by the means of an eddy viscosity, with appropriate boundary conditions. Existence of a weak solution to our coupled problem is proved in dimension 2. Then, we present the axisymmetric code we developed, called SeaNet. We set the parameters of the model and validate the code by comparison with the... |
