Re:Simulating Water over Terrain
by semi-extrinsic on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:09PM
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I don't think so, the waves are actual shock waves which are a solution to the Riemann problem for the shallow water equations because they are nonlinear hyperbolic equations. You can find them even before you start introducing any numerical grid or discretization.
Re:Simulating Water over Terrain
by matheist on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:31PM
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Very interesting, my mistake! I'm more familiar with acoustics and assumed it was the same phenomenon, but it looks like I jumped to a mistaken conclusion.
See e.g. the classic exposition by Leveque:
https://www.clawpack.org/riemann_book/html/Shallow_water.htm...