1.2 Applications
Possible applications of the shallow water - or St. Venant -
equations include various problems of open surface hydraulics: river
hydraulics, man-made canals and irrigation systems as well as marine
flows.
- A well-known case from the class of land-based or artificial
flows is the prediction of the time evolution of the flood wave
induced by a rupture of a containing dam [1][2]
which obviously has important implications for hasard assesssment.
- An example of an environmental flow study based on the shallow
water approximation is the computation of
the wave motion induced by a land slide into a lake
[3].
- A marine flow prediction of particular interest is connected to
tsunamis: a given seismically induced wave
propagates in the region of the continental shallows and shelf [4].
Many more applications exist such as wave motion in harbor basins or
flow in urban sewage systems.
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