Journal
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
Volume 199, Issue 23-24, Pages 1424-1436Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.11.016
Keywords
Discontinuous Galerkin; Nonlinear diffusion; Doubly nonlinear; Shallow water equations; Diffusive wave approximation
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMS-0411413, DMS-0620697]
- Centro de Investigacion en Geografia y Geomatica
- Henson Environmental Fellowship
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In this paper, we study a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method to approximate solutions of a doubly nonlinear diffusion equation, known in the literature as the diffusive wave approximation of the shallow water equations (DSW). This equation arises in shallow water flow models when special assumptions are used to simplify the shallow water equations and contains as particular cases: the Porous Medium equation and the parabolic p-Laplacian. Continuous in time a priori error estimates are established between the approximate solutions obtained using the proposed LDG method and weak solutions to the DSW equation under physically consistent assumptions. The results of numerical experiments in 2D are presented to verify the numerical accuracy of the method, and to show the qualitative properties of water flow captured by the DSW equation, when used as a model to simulate an idealized dam break problem with vegetation. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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