High order well-balanced scheme for river flow modeling

Abstract

We propose a new numerical scheme based on the finite volumes to simulate the river flow in the presence of a variable bottom surface. Our approach is based on the Riemann solver designed for the augmented quasilinear homogeneous formulation. The scheme has general semidiscrete wave-propagation form and can be extended to an arbitrary high order accuracy. The main goal is to construct the scheme, which is well-balanced, i.e. maintains not only some special steady states, but all steady states which can occur.