A Positivity-Preserving and Well-Balanced High Order Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Shallow Water Equations

A Positivity-Preserving and Well-Balanced High Order Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Shallow Water Equations

Year:    2024

Author:    Baifen Ren, Zhen Gao, Yaguang Gu, Shusen Xie, Xiangxiong Zhang

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 35 (2024), Iss. 2 : pp. 524–552

Abstract

We construct a positivity-preserving and well-balanced high order accurate finite difference scheme for solving shallow water equations under the fourth order compact finite difference framework. The source term is rewritten to balance the flux gradient in steady state solutions. Under a suitable CFL condition, the proposed compact difference scheme satisfies weak monotonicity, i.e., the average water height defined by the weighted average of a three-points stencil stays non-negative in forward Euler time discretization. Thus, a positivity-preserving limiter can be used to enforce the positivity of water height point values in a high order strong stability preserving Runge-Kutta method. A TVB limiter for compact finite difference scheme is also used to reduce numerical oscillations, without affecting well-balancedness and positivity. Numerical experiments verify that the proposed scheme is high-order accurate, positivity-preserving, well-balanced and free of numerical oscillations.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2023-0034

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 35 (2024), Iss. 2 : pp. 524–552

Published online:    2024-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    29

Keywords:    Well-balanced positivity-preserving compact finite difference.

Author Details

Baifen Ren

Zhen Gao

Yaguang Gu

Shusen Xie

Xiangxiong Zhang

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