SW2D-LEMON: a new software for upscaled shallow water modeling

Joao Guilherme Caldas Steinstraesser (1, 2) , Carole Delenne (1, 3) , Pascal Finaud-Guyot (1, 3) , Vincent Guinot (1, 3) , Joseph Luis Kahn Casapia (1, 2) , Antoine Rousseau (1, 2)

1 LEMON - Littoral, Environment: MOdels and Numerics
2 IMAG - Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck
3 HSM - Hydrosciences Montpellier

We present a new multi-OS platform named SW2D-LEMON (SW2D for Shallow Water 2D) developed by the LEMON research team in Montpellier. SW2D-LEMON is a multi-model software focusing on shallow water-based models. It includes an unprecedented collection of upscaled (porosity) models used for shallow water equations and transportreaction processes. Porosity models are obtained by averaging the two-dimensional shallow water equations over large areas containing both a water and a solid phase. The size of a computational cell can be increased by a factor 10 to 50 compared to a 2D shallow water model, with CPU times reduced by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude. Applications include urban flood simulations as well as flows over complex topography. Besides the standard shallow water equations (the default model), several porosity models are included in the platform: (i) Single Porosity, (ii) Dual Integral Porosity, and others are currently under development such as (iii) Depth-dependent Porosity model. Various flow processes (friction, head losses, wind, momentum diffusion, precipitation/infiltration) can be included in a modular way by activating specific execution flags. We recall here the governing equations as well as numerical aspects and present the software features. Several examples are presented to illustrate the potential of SW2D.

Mots clés: Shallow water equations; urban floods; software; upscaling; finite volumes

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation; Ingénierie de l'environnement; Interfaces continentales, environnement

Joao Guilherme Caldas Steinstraesser, Carole Delenne, Pascal Finaud-Guyot, Vincent Guinot, Joseph Luis Kahn Casapia, et al.. SW2D-LEMON: a new software for upscaled shallow water modeling. Simhydro 2021 - 6th International Conference Models for complex and global water issues - Practices and expectations., Jun 2021, Sophia Antipolis, France. ⟨10.1007/978-981-19-1600-7_2⟩. ⟨hal-03224050⟩