A conservativewell-balanced hybrid sph scheme for the shallow-water model

Abstract

A scheme defined by a hybridization between SPH method and finite volume method is considered. The aim of the present communication is to derive a suitable discretization of the source term to enforce the required well-balanced property. To address such an issue, we adopt a relevant reformulation of the flux function by involving the free surface instead of the water height. Such an approach gives a natural discretization of the topography source term in order to preserve the lake at rest. Moreover, we prove that the scheme is in conservative form, which is, in general, a very difficult task since we do not impose restrictive assumptions on the SPH method. Several 1D numerical experiments are performed to exhibit the properties of the scheme.