Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 923-951Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-019-09732-7
Keywords
Numerical model; Wetting-drying; SLIM; DG-FEM; Mekong; Tonle Sap lake
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The accurate simulation of wetting-drying processes in floodplains and coastal zones is a challenge for hydrodynamic modelling, especially for long time simulations. Indeed, dedicated numerical procedures are generally time-consuming, instabilities can occur at the wet/dry front, rapid transition of wet/dry interface and mass conservation are not always ensured. We present the extension of an existing wetting-drying algorithm in two space dimensions and its application to a real case. The wetting-drying algorithm is implemented in Second-generation Louvain-la-Neuve Ice-ocean Model (), a discontinuous Galerkin finite element model solving the shallow water equations in a fully implicit way. This algorithm consists in applying a threshold value of fluid depth for a thin layer and a blending parameter in order to guarantee positive values of the water depth, while preserving local mass conservation and the well balanced property at wet/dry interfaces. The technique is first validated against standard analytical test cases (Balzano 1, Balzano 3 and Thacker test cases) and is subsquently applied in a realistic domain, the Tonle Sap Lake in the Mekong River Basin, where the water level can vary by about 10 m between the dry and the wet season.
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