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A limitation of some well-balanced schemes for Shallow Water equations
Olivier Delestre 1, Stéphane Cordier 2, Frédéric Darboux 3, Francois James 2
(2012-06-20)

Because of their capability to preserve steady-states, well-balanced schemes for Shallow Water equations are becoming popular. They allow to verify important mathematical and physical properties like the positivity of the water height and, thus, to avoid the unstabilities when dealing with dry zones. In this note, we prove that the well-balanced scheme based on hydrostatic reconstruction proposed in 2004 [2] exhibits an abnormal behavior for some combinations of slope, mesh size and water height.
1:  Laboratoire Jean Alexandre Dieudonné (JAD)
CNRS : UMR6621 – Université Nice Sophia Antipolis [UNS]
2:  Mathématiques - Analyse, Probabilités, Modélisation - Orléans (MAPMO)
Université d'Orléans – CNRS : UMR7349
3:  Unité de recherche Science du Sol (USS)
Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) : UR0272
Mathematics/Numerical Analysis

Mathematics/Analysis of PDEs
Shallow water equations – Saint-Venant system – well-balanced scheme – hydrostatic reconstruction – finite volume schemes – exact solution
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