Author(s)

J.L.Franco & F.H.Chaudhr

Abstract

A number of studies on kinematic routing in watersheds have been reported in the literature demonstrating the usefulness of the finite element method. In these studies, different dependent variables are chosen for their approximate representation by basis functions. Further, different solution schemes in the time domain were used. Each decision as regards the approximate representation of functions and time integration may introduce varying effects on the results of the numerical integration. One-dimensional kinematic wave equation is solved in this paper by finite element method according to various solution strategies proposed in literature with reference to an example problem. The time distributions of overland flow obtained by different methods are compared against the analytical solution and the convenience of the procedures discussed. 1 Introduction Computational

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