Two-Dimensional Locally Adaptive Non-Hydrostatic Extension of Shallow Water Equations

We introduce a two-dimensional non-hydrostatic model for shallow water wave dispersion.

The model is based on a locally adapted application of a non-hydrostatic correction to the hydrostatic shallow water equations (SWE) in a predictor-corrector scheme.

Applying the non-hydrostatic correction uniformly to the entire domain demands a high computational cost, since an elliptic system of equations needs to be solved for the correction terms.

We demonstrate that by determining the area where the non-hydrostatic effects are significant, and applying the correction only locally, the computational effort can be reduced by approximately 40\% without sacrificing accuracy in tsunami-like scenarios.

As indicators for the non-hydrostatic effect, we use the ratio between total water depth and surface elevation, as well as horizontal velocity norms.

Results are shown for several well-known test cases, including wave trains over a semi-circular shoal, static, and moving bottom tsunami-like wave propagation.