Title
Efficient numerical schemes for viscoplastic avalanches. Part 1: The 1D case.
Abstract
This paper deals with the numerical resolution of a shallow water viscoplastic flow model. Viscoplastic materials are characterized by the existence of a yield stress: below a certain critical threshold in the imposed stress, there is no deformation and the material behaves like a rigid solid, but when that yield value is exceeded, the material flows like a fluid. In the context of avalanches, it means that after going down a slope, the material can stop and its free surface has a non-trivial shape, as opposed to the case of water (Newtonian fluid). The model involves variational inequalities associated with the yield threshold: finite-volume schemes are used together with duality methods (namely Augmented Lagrangian and Bermudez-Moreno) to discretize the problem. To be able to accurately simulate the stopping behavior of the avalanche, new schemes need to be designed, involving the classical notion of well-balancing. In the present context, it needs to be extended to take into account the viscoplastic nature of the material as well as general bottoms with wet/dry fronts which are encountered in geophysical geometries. We derived such schemes and numerical experiments are presented to show their performances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.jcp.2014.01.026
J. Comput. Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
certain critical threshold,yield stress,numerical experiment,viscoplastic avalanche,viscoplastic material,material flow,yield value,numerical resolution,yield threshold,efficient numerical scheme,newtonian fluid,present context,viscoplastic,finite volume,shallow water,variational inequality
Discretization,Mathematical optimization,Mathematical analysis,Yield (engineering),Viscoplasticity,Augmented Lagrangian method,Newtonian fluid,Numerical analysis,Finite volume method,Mathematics,Variational inequality
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
264
0021-9991
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Enrique D. Fernández-Nieto110.43
José M. Gallardo212613.35
Paul Vigneaux3131.78