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In this note, we show the existence of regular solutions to the stationary version of the Navier-Stokes system for compressible fluids with a density dependent viscosity, known as the shallow water equations. For arbitrary large forcing we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Šimon Axmann , Piotr B. Mucha , Milan Pokorný

The most used form of the Shallow Water Equations doesn't take into account the variation of the curvature of the base flow surface. In this paper, we compare the theoretical and numerical solutions of the standard model and with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-25 Stelian Ion , Dorin Marinescu , Stefan Gicu Cruceanu

Reduced models for free-surface flows are required due to the high dimensionality of the underlying incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which need to fully resolve the flow in vertical direction to compute the surface height. On the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Ullika Scholz , Julian Koellermeier

We consider surface finite elements and a semi-implicit time stepping scheme to simulate fluid deformable surfaces. Such surfaces are modeled by incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equations with bending forces. Here, we consider closed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Veit Krause , Axel Voigt

We review here the derivation of many of the most important models that appear in the literature (mainly in coastal oceanography) for the description of waves in shallow water. We show that these models can be obtained using various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 David Lannes

Our aim is to study the effect of a continuous prescribed density variation on the propagation of ocean waves. More precisely, we derive KdV-type shallow water model equations for unidirectional flows along the Equator from the full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-29 Anna Geyer , Ronald Quirchmayr

This article provides a general iterative approximation to partial differential equations, and thus establish existence of smooth solution. The heart of the method is to contract (or expand) the boundary conditions uniformly in the domain,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Chang Gao

The shear shallow water model provides an approximation for shallow water flows by including the effect of vertical shear in the model. This model can be derived from the depth averaging process by including the second order velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Praveen Chandrashekar , Boniface Nkonga , Asha Kumari Meena , Ashish Bhole

Finite-volume numerical method for study shallow water flows over an arbitrary bed profile in the presence of external force is proposed. This method uses the quasi-two-layer model of hydrodynamic flows over a stepwise boundary with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-08-22 K. V. Karelsky , A. S. Petrosyan , A. G. Slavin

Analysing two-dimensional shallow water equations with idealised bottom topographies have many applications in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences; however, restrictive flow pattern assumptions have been made to achieve explicit solutions.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Chang Liu , Antwan D. Clark

The predictive accuracy of the Navier-Stokes equations is known to degrade at the limits of the continuum assumption, thereby necessitating expensive and often highly approximate solutions to the Boltzmann equation. While tractable in one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-25 Ashish S. Nair , Justin Sirignano , Marco Panesi , Jonathan F. MacArt

In this paper, we present a novel approach to model the fluid/solid interaction forces in a direct solver of the Navier-Stokes equations based on the volume of fluid interface tracking method. The key ingredient of the model is the explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kyle Mahady , Shahriar Afkhami , Lou Kondic

This paper is concerned with the global solvability for the Navier-Stokes equations describing viscous free surface flows of infinite depth in three and higher dimensions. We first prove time weighted estimates of solutions to a linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Hirokazu Saito , Yoshihiro Shibata

An algorithm is proposed for generalized mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, which include inverse mean curvature flow, powers of mean and inverse mean curvature flow, etc. Error estimates are proven for semi- and full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

Conventional mathematical models for simulating incompressible fluid flow problems are based on the Navier-Stokes equations expressed in terms of pressure and velocity. In this context, pressure-velocity coupling is a key issue, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Ricardo Costa , Stéphane Clain , Gaspar J. Machado , João M. Nóbrega

Originally introduced to describe a transition region in stars, the magnetic rotating shallow water (MRSW) model is now used in many solar physics and geophysical applications. Derived from the 3-D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic system,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Julian Koellermeier , Michael Redle , Manuel Torrilhon

We consider shape and topology optimization for fluids which are governed by the Navier--Stokes equations. Shapes are modelled with the help of a phase field approach and the solid body is relaxed to be a porous medium. The phase field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

Whilst surface-stress integration remains the standard approach for fluid force evaluation, control-volume integral methods provide deeper physical insights through functional relationships between the flow field and the resultant force. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 An-Kang Gao , Chenyue Xie , Xi-Yun Lu

Overland flow on agricultural fields may have some undesirable effects such as soil erosion, flood and pollutant transport. To better understand this phenomenon and limit its consequences, we developed a code using state-of-the-art…

Shockwaves provide a useful and rewarding route to the nonequilibrium properties of simple fluids far from equilibrium. For simplicity, we study a strong shockwave in a dense two-dimensional fluid. Here, our study of nonlinear transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-24 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover