Space discontinuous Galerkin method for shallow water flows - kinetic and HLLC flux, and potential vorticity generation

Tassi, P.A. and Bokhove, O. and Vionnet, C.A. (2006) Space discontinuous Galerkin method for shallow water flows - kinetic and HLLC flux, and potential vorticity generation. Advances in Water Resources, 30 . pp. 998-1015. ISSN 0309-1708

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Abstract:	In this paper, a second order space discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is presented for the numerical solution of inviscid shallow water flows over varying bottom topography. Novel in the implementation is the use of HLLC and kinetic numerical fluxes in combination with a dissipation operator, applied only locally around discontinuities to limit spurious numerical oscillations. Numerical solutions over (non-)uniform meshes are verified against exact solutions; the numerical error in the $L_2$ -norm and the convergence of the solution are computed. Bore-vortex interactions are studied analytically and numerically to validate the model; these include bores as "breaking waves'' in a channel and a bore traveling over a conical and Gaussian hump. In these complex numerical test cases, we correctly predict the generation of potential vorticity by non-uniform bores. Finally, we successfully validate the numerical model against measurements of steady oblique hydraulic jumps in a channel with a contraction. In the latter case, the kinetic flux is shown to be more robust.
Item Type:	Article
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Mathematics of Computational Science (MaCS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/66388
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.09.003
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