Hyperbolicity-Preserving and Well-Balanced Stochastic Galerkin Method for Shallow Water Equations

Abstract: A stochastic Galerkin formulation for a stochastic system of balanced or conservation laws may fail to preserve hyperbolicity of the original system. In this work, we develop hyperbolicity-preserving stochastic Galerkin formulation for the one-dimensional shallow water equations by carefully selecting the polynomial chaos expansion of the nonlinear $q^2/h$ term in terms of the polynomial chaos expansions of the conserved variables. In addition, in an arbitrary finite stochastic dimension, we establish a sufficient condition to guarantee hyperbolicity of the stochastic Galerkin system through a finite number of conditions at stochastic quadrature points. Further, we develop a well-balanced central-upwind scheme for the stochastic shallow water model and derive the associated hyperbolicty-preserving CFL-type condition. The performance of the developed method is illustrated on a number of challenging numerical tests.