Abstract
A computational method to solve shallow water equations has been investigated with an SMAC method which is usually employed in the simulation for incompressible fluids. In particular, this numerical method is implemented in the unstructured collocated grid system with the distributed memory system to increase the parallel efficiency. The developed computational method was applied to the 1D dam-break problem and the free-surface flows in a meandering open channel. As a result of the 1D dam-break simulations, it was confirmed that this method improve the numerical stability. While, in the case of the meandering open channel, it was confirmed that the predicted water depth and depth-averaged velocity distributions are qualitatively in good agreement with the experimental results and that the reasonable parallel efficiencies are attained by parallel computations.
