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If you disregard the lateral viscosity terms, the SWE as given in chapter 2 are of hyperbolic type, that is: they have real characteristics (further discussed below in section 4.3). This implies that you can think of solutions as combinations of waves. The viscosity terms do have an influence: they will act as a damping mechanism. However, they are often not very large and you can generally assume that the wave properties are not essentially altered. This assumption is made in this chapter.
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Vreugdenhil, C.B. (1994). Behaviour of solutions. In: Numerical Methods for Shallow-Water Flow. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8354-1_4
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