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Issue ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 42, Number 5, September-October 2008
Page(s) 851 - 885
DOI 10.1051/m2an:2008029
Published online 30 July 2008

ESAIM: M2AN 42 (2008) 851-885
DOI: 10.1051/m2an:2008029

A Roe-type scheme for two-phase shallow granular flows over variable topography

Marica Pelanti1, François Bouchut2 and Anne Mangeney3, 4

1  Département de Mathématiques et Applications, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France. Marica.Pelanti@ens.fr
2  CNRS and Département de Mathématiques et Applications, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France. Francois.Bouchut@ens.fr
3  Équipe de Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France. mangeney@ipgp.jussieu.fr
4  Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0402, USA.

Received November 9, 2007. Published online July 30, 2008.

Abstract
We study a depth-averaged model of gravity-driven flows made of solid grains and fluid, moving over variable basal surface. In particular, we are interested in applications to geophysical flows such as avalanches and debris flows, which typically contain both solid material and interstitial fluid. The model system consists of mass and momentum balance equations for the solid and fluid components, coupled together by both conservative and non-conservative terms involving the derivatives of the unknowns, and by interphase drag source terms. The system is hyperbolic at least when the difference between solid and fluid velocities is sufficiently small. We solve numerically the one-dimensional model equations by a high-resolution finite volume scheme based on a Roe-type Riemann solver. Well-balancing of topography source terms is obtained via a technique that includes these contributions into the wave structure of the Riemann solution. We present and discuss several numerical experiments, including problems of perturbed steady flows over non-flat bottom surface that show the efficient modeling of disturbances of equilibrium conditions.


Mathematics Subject Classification. 65M99, 76T25.

Key words: Granular flows, two-phase flows, thin layer approximation, non-conservative systems, numerical model, finite volume schemes, Riemann solvers, well-balanced schemes.


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