<p>Canal automatic control is an important tool to improve the management level of water distribution systems, while an important method to evaluate the effect is controller is using numerical simulations. The free-surface flow in such system can be modelled using the Saint-Venant equations, while the regulating gates are usually treated as inner boundaries where gate discharge formula is adopted. In the previous research, the Saint-Venant equations are normally discretized using the implicit finite difference methods because of their accuracy and simplicity. However, it is difficult to incorporate the inner boundary conditions in the computation of implicit method. To circumvent this problem, this paper presents a hybrid discretization method, which adopts the state-of-art finite volume methods at regulating gates and finite difference methods elsewhere. This new discretization method can preserve the computational speed advantage of finite difference method and capture the wave propagation near the regulating gates. Which can provide reliable evidence for the design of controllers.</p>
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