Author(s): Leonardo R. Monteiro; Edith B. C. Schettini

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Abstract: First of all, we would like to thank the Discussers, Oscar Castro-Orgaz and Hubert Chanson, for their interest in our paper and for their discussion of shallow water equations (SWE). The Discussers agreed with the main paper conclusions but did not think that a clear explanation was presented of what the Authors call SWE in the paper introduction. When we introduced the SWE, we were discussing the SWE based on Saint-Venant theory, because we were discussing hydrostatic pressure distribution. We referenced the SWE that we were talking about, and our objective was not to have a wider discussion. We want to make it clear by this closure that the main discussion of the paper was about hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic pressure and we did not use any SWE models in our simulation. Still, we cite SWE in the introduction because many programmes that are used to calculate dam-break flows consider the SWE based on Saint-Venant theory. We are not criticizing SWE in all aspects, but the use of hydrostatic pressure to represent complex flows. We thank the Discussers for indicating the database in the article of Leng and Chanson (2017). We will certainly use it in our future work.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2020.1780507

Year: 2021