Galerkin-finite element methods for the shallow water equations with characteristic boundary conditions

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRW017zbMATH Open1433.76068arXiv1507.08209OpenAlexW2964265249MaRDI QIDQ4683753FDOQ4683753

Authors: D. C. Antonopoulos, V. A. Dougalis 

Publication date: 26 September 2018

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the Shallow Water equations in the supercritical and subcritical cases in one space variable,posed in a finite spatial interval with characteristic boundary conditions at the endpoints, which, as is well known, are transparent,i.e. allow outgoing waves to exit without generating spurious reflected waves. Assuming that the resulting initial-boundary-value problems have smooth solutions,we approximate them in space using standard Galerkin-finite element methods and prove L^2 error estimates for the semidiscrete problems on quasiuniform meshes.We discretize the problems in the temporal variable using an explicit,fourth-order accurate Runge-Kutta scheme and check, by means of numerical experiment, that the resulting fully discrete schemes have excellent absorption properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08209

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zbMATH Keywords

error estimatesshallow water equationsGalerkin methodscharacteristic boundary conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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