Lagrange–Galerkin method for unsteady free surface water waves

Authors:
Mohammed Seaïd;Mofdi El-Amrani
Affiliations:
FB Mathematik, Universität Kaiserslautern, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Dpto. de Matemáticas y Física Aplicada y Ciencias de la Naturaleza, ESCET, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipán, s/n, 28933, Móstoles-Madrid, Spain
Venue:
Computing and Visualization in Science
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We present a new numerical technique to approximate solutions to unsteady free surface flows modelled by the two-dimensional shallow water equations. The method we propose in this paper consists of an Eulerian–Lagrangian splitting of the equations along the characteristic curves. The Lagrangian stage of the splitting is treated by a non-oscillatory modified method of characteristics, while the Eulerian stage is approximated by an implicit time integration scheme using finite element method for spatial discretization. The combined two stages lead to a Lagrange–Galerkin method which is robust, second order accurate, and simple to implement for problems on complex geometry. Numerical results are shown for several test problems with different ranges of difficulty.