Well-balanced finite volume multi-resolution schemes for solving the Ripa models

• Main Authors: Asad Rehman, Ishtiaq Ali, Saqib Zia, Shamsul Qamar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-03-01
• Series: Advances in Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/16878140211003418

In this article, fifth order well-balanced finite volume multi-resolution weighted essentially non-oscillatory (FV MR-WENO) schemes are constructed for solving one-dimensional and two-dimensional Ripa models. The Ripa system generalizes the shallow water model by incorporating horizontal temperature gradients. The presence of temperature gradients and source terms in the Ripa models introduce difficulties in developing high order accurate numerical schemes which can preserve exactly the steady-state conditions. The proposed numerical methods are capable to exactly preserve the steady-state solutions and maintain non-oscillatory property near the shock transitions. Moreover, in the procedure of derivation of the FV MR-WENO schemes unequal central spatial stencils are used and linear weights can be chosen any positive numbers with only restriction that their total sum is one. Various numerical test problems are considered to check the validity and accuracy of the derived numerical schemes. Further, the results obtained from considered numerical schemes are compared with those of a high resolution central upwind scheme and available exact solutions of the Ripa model.