Well-balanced fifth-order finite difference Hermite WENO scheme for the shallow water equations

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a well-balanced fifth-order finite difference Hermite WENO (HWENO) scheme for the shallow water equations with non-flat bottom topography in pre-balanced form. For achieving the well-balanced property, we adopt the similar idea of WENO-XS scheme (Xing and Shu (2005) [30]) to balance the flux gradients and the source terms. The fluxes in the original equations are reconstructed by the nonlinear HWENO reconstructions while other fluxes in the derivative equations are approximated by the high-degree polynomials directly. And an HWENO limiter is applied for the derivatives of equilibrium variables in time discretization step to control spurious oscillations which maintains the well-balanced property. Instead of using a five-point stencil in the fifth-order WENO-XS scheme, the proposed HWENO scheme only needs a compact three-point stencil in the reconstruction. Various benchmark examples in one and two dimensions are presented to show the HWENO scheme is fifth-order accuracy, preserves steady-state solution, has better resolution, is more accurate and efficient, and is essentially non-oscillatory.