An efficient scheme on wet/dry transitions for shallow water equations with friction

Fabien Marche (1) , Christophe Berthon (2) , Rodolphe Turpault (2)

1 I3M - Institut de Mathématiques et de Modélisation de Montpellier
2 LMJL - Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray

The present work concerns the derivation of a suitable discretization to approximate the friction source terms in the shallow-water model. Such additional source terms are known to be very stiff as soon as the water height is vanishing. The proposed numerical procedure comes from a relevant correction of a Godunov-type scheme that approximates the solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The adopted correction gives a discretization of the source term which preserves the robustness and does not change the CFL condition. The scheme is shown to be particularly efficient for wet/dry transition simulations. In addition, this numerical procedure can be used together with any robust and well-balanced discretization of the topography source term. Second order extension is also investigated. Extensive numerical validations illustrate the interest of this new approach.

Domaines: Analyse numérique [math.NA]

Fabien Marche, Christophe Berthon, Rodolphe Turpault. An efficient scheme on wet/dry transitions for shallow water equations with friction. Computers and Fluids, 2011, 48 (1), pp.192--201. ⟨10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.04.011⟩. ⟨hal-00799075⟩