A Subsonic-Well-Balanced Reconstruction Scheme for Shallow Water Flows

We consider the Saint-Venant system for shallow water flows with non-flat bottom. In the past years, efficient well-balanced methods have been proposed in order to well resolve solutions close to steady states at rest. Here we describe a strategy based on a local subsonic steady-state reconstruction that allows to derive a subsonic-well-balanced scheme, preserving exactly all the subsonic steady states. It generalizes the now wellknown hydrostatic solver, and as the latter it preserves nonnegativity of water height and satisfies a semi-discrete entropy inequality. An application to the Euler-Poisson system is proposed.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIAMNUM
• Authors: François Bouchut, Tomás Morales de Luna
• Keywords: Efficient Well-balanced Methods, SIAMNUM 2010, Steady States, Subsonic Steady-state Reconstruction