“…In the meanwhile, the set of shallow water equations (though younger, as the equations have been written by Adhémar Barré de Saint-Venant in 1871 [18]) have received a large audience as well. They are used for modelling the flow in rivers [31], [12] (and networks of rivers), in lakes, rain overland flow [20,21], [75], in dams [77,78] or the long waves in shallow water seas (tides in the Channel for example [70], or for Tsunami modelling [23], [68]). It has been observed that Saint-Venant equations with source terms (which are the shape of the topography, and the viscous terms) present numerical difficulties for steady states.…”