Hello,
I have tried to add the tide generating force in the ondem2 test case and it works, so there is no obvious mistake with this option. You can try also with your configuration.
Regarding the problem of low tide: tidal computations on large domains are very sensitive to numerical parameters. You can test the primitive equations with quasi-bubble element:
TREATMENT OF LINEAR SYSTEM : 2 SOLVER : 7
DISCRETIZATIONS IN SPACE : 12;11
and the sensitive parameters are :
IMPLICITATION FOR DEPTH : as close as possible to but greater or equal to 0.5 (but set to 1 with treatment of linear system=2, this will be relaxed in version 6.2)
IMPLICITATION FOR VELOCITY : as close as possible to 0.5
and in a lesser extent :
MASS-LUMPING ON H : 0. (no mass-lumping)
The computer time will be much larger but you'll have an idea of the uncertainty due to numerics.
With best regards,
Jean-Michel Hervouet