Special Session 81: Analytic and numerical progress in complex fluids and related PDE models

Flux Globalization Based Well-Balanced Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Scheme for Shallow Water Equations
Yangyang CAO
Shenzhen MSU-BIT University
Peoples Rep of China
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Abstract:
In this work, we propose flux globalization based well-balanced path-conservative central-upwind schemes for several shallow water models. We focus on development of the well-balanced schemes capable of exactly preserving quite complicated steady-state solutions the studied systems admit when the bottom topography is discontinuous. In such cases, nonconservative product terms naturally appear and they require a special treatment. To this end, we incorporate the nonconservative product terms into the global fluxes using the path-conservative technique implemented within a framework of simple---yet highly accurate and robust---Riemann-problem-solver-free central-upwind schemes. This results in new flux globalization based central-upwind schemes, which are more accurate than their existing counterparts. The advantages of the proposed schemes are demonstrated on a number of numerical examples.