A simple finite volume method for the shallow water equations

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-72

  Benkhaldoun, Fayssal ^a   Seaïd, Mohammed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dam break problems; Finite volume scheme; Method of characteristics; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BENCHMARK TESTS; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; DAM-BREAK PROBLEMS; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL FLUX; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RIEMANN PROBLEM; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; TIME INTEGRATION;

DAMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 77649178663     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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