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- Title
Accuracy and efficiency of time integration methods for 1D diffusive wave equation.
- Authors
Weill, Sylvain; Chiara-Roupert, Raphael; Ackerer, Philippe
- Abstract
The diffusive wave approximation of the Saint-Venant equations is commonly used in hydrological models to describe surface flow processes. Numerous numerical approaches can be used to solve this highly nonlinear equation. Nonlinear time integration schemes-also called methods of lines (MOL)-were proven very efficient to solve other nonlinear problems in geosciences but were never considered to deal with surface flow modeling with the diffusive wave equation. In this paper, we study the relative performance of different time and space integration schemes by comparing the results obtained with classical approaches and with nonlinear time integration approaches. The results show that (i) the integration method with a higher order in space shows high accuracy regarding an integrated indicator such as the global mass balance error but is less accurate regarding local indicators, and (ii) nonlinear time integration techniques perform better than classical ones. Overall, it seems that integration techniques combining nonlinear time integration and a low spatial order need to be considered when developing hydrological modeling tools owing to their simplicity of implementation and very good performance.
- Subjects
TIME integration scheme; SHALLOW-water equations; NONLINEAR equations; WAVE equation; HYDROLOGIC models; EROSION; PREVENTION
- Publication
Computational Geosciences, 2014, Vol 18, Issue 5, p697
- ISSN
1420-0597
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10596-014-9417-z