Application of positivity-preserving well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin method in computational hydrology

The positivity-preserving well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method (Xing et al. J Sci Comput 57, 2013) is employed to solve the shallow water equations on an unstructured triangular mesh and to study their applications in computational hydrology. The grid convergence of the DG method is verified via the steady state oblique hydraulic jump problem. The dam-breaking problems with wet and dry river beds are conducted to demonstrate the …