This research project focuses on the development and evaluation of numerical methods for shallow flows by proposing new spatial and temporal discretization techniques. First, a new high-order explicit finite volume method and a class of semi-implicit schemes are introduced which are effective for modelling fast and slow waves in oceanic and atmospheric flows. In the second part of the research project, a central-upwind scheme is proposed for shallow water flows on variable topography using unstructured grids. In this part of the project, a new approach is proposed for the stability analysis of unstructured numerical schemes for shallow water equations. In the third part of the thesis, two finite volume methods are developed for the conservation laws on curved geometries which are potentially applicable to shallow flows on a sphere. For such cases, numerical schemes are developed by using the approach followed by Stanley Osher. This approach employs simple hyperbolic systems which generate complex wave phenomena, and solutions that are effective for assessing numerical methods. In our case, Burgers’ equations are used since they have played an important role in the development of shock-capturing schemes in fluid mechanics.
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