Numerical simulations of hydraulic jumps with the Shear Shallow Water model

Abstract

An extension and numerical approximation of the shear shallow water equations model recently proposed in [21] is considered in this work. The model equations are able to describe the oscillatory nature of turbulent hydraulic jumps and as such correct the deficiency of the classical shallow water equations in describing such phenomena. The model equations, orig- inally developed for horizontal flow or flows occurring over small constant slopes, are straight- forwardly extended here for modeling flows over non-constant slopes and numerically solved by a second-order well-balanced finite volume scheme. Further, a new set of exact solutions to the extended model equations are derived and several numerical tests are performed to validate the numerical scheme and its ability to predict the oscillatory nature of hydraulic jumps under different conditions.