Godunov-Type Solutions for Water Hammer Flows
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 130, Issue 4
Abstract
First- and second-order explicit finite volume (FV) Godunov-type schemes for water hammer problems are formulated, applied, and analyzed. The FV formulation ensures that both schemes conserve mass and momentum and produce physically realizable shock fronts. The exact solution of the Riemann problem provides the fluxes at the cell interfaces. It is through the exact Riemann solution that the physics of water hammer waves is incorporated into the proposed schemes. The implementation of boundary conditions, such as valves, pipe junctions, and reservoirs, within the Godunov approach is similar to that of the method of characteristics (MOC) approach. The schemes are applied to a system consisting of a reservoir, a pipe, and a valve and to a system consisting of a reservoir, two pipes in series, and a valve. The computations are carried out for various Courant numbers and the energy norm is used to evaluate the numerical accuracy of the schemes. Numerical tests and theoretical analysis show that the first-order Godunov scheme is identical to the MOC scheme with space-line interpolation. It is also found that, for a given level of accuracy and using the same computer, the second-order scheme requires much less memory storage and execution time than either the first-order scheme or the MOC scheme with space-line interpolation. Overall, the second-order Godunov scheme is simple to implement, accurate, efficient, conservative, and stable for Courant number less than or equal to one.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 130 • Issue 4 • April 2004
Pages: 341 - 348
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Copyright © 2004 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Nov 14, 2002
Accepted: Oct 3, 2003
Published online: Mar 15, 2004
Published in print: Apr 2004
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