Combined finite volume–finite element method for shallow water equations

Abstract This paper is concerned with solving the viscous and inviscid shallow water equations. The numerical method is based on second-order finite volume–finite element (FV–FE) discretization: the convective inviscid terms of the shallow water equations are computed by a finite volume method, while the diffusive viscous terms are computed with a finite element method. The method is implemented on unstructured meshes. The inviscid fluxes are evaluated with the approximate Riemann solver coupled with a second-order upwind reconstruction. Herein, the Roe and the Osher approximate Riemann solvers are used respectively and a comparison between them is made. Appropriate limiters are used to suppress spurious oscillations and the performance of three different limiters is assessed. Moreover, the second-order conforming piecewise linear finite elements are used. The second-order TVD Runge–Kutta method is applied to the time integration. Verification of the method for the full viscous system and the inviscid equations is carried out. By solving an advection–diffusion problem, the performance assessment for the FV–FE method, the full finite volume method, and the discontinuous Galerkin method is presented.

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