Pivoting Strategies in the Solution of the Saint-Venant Equations
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 1
Abstract
Pivoting was incorporated in the process of solving the linear system of equations that results after discretizing the Saint- Venant equations using the four-point implicit scheme, and applying the Newton–Raphson algorithm to the resulting set of nonlinear equations. Both exchange of rows only (partial pivoting) and exchange of rows and columns (full pivoting) were investigated using the CanalMan hydraulic model. Partial pivoting was used with the LU (lower and upper) decomposition linear equation solver, whereas full pivoting was used with the Gauss–Jordan elimination algorithm. It was demonstrated that the application of partial and full pivoting to the solution of the linear set of equations during Newton–Raphson iterations can make the difference between convergence and divergence of the solution, and should be applied as needed. However, full pivoting should be used only when needed because it slows the simulation considerably.
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Acknowledgments
The writer wants to acknowledge the help received from Dr. Gary P. Merkley, Professor in the Department of Biological and Irrigation Engineering at Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Dr. Merkley is the developer of the CanalMan hydraulic model, and was the writer’s major professor during his doctoral studies at that renowned university.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 1 • February 2009
Pages: 96 - 101
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Jul 24, 2007
Accepted: May 19, 2008
Published online: Feb 1, 2009
Published in print: Feb 2009
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