 Front-regularized triangular-channel dam break

In a prismatic triangular channel with constant reduced gravity, the wave speed is $c=\sqrt{g^{\prime }h/2}$ and the Riemann invariants are $u\pm 4c$. A dam release into a deep ambient produces a simple-wave rarefaction with $u+4c=4c_0$. The imposed gravity-current front condition $u_f=F\sqrt{g^{\prime }{h}_f}$ gives the displayed uniform nose-adjacent state. The fan has $c=(4c_0-x/t)/5$ and $u=4(c_0+x/t)/5$, extending from $x/t=-c_0$ to $u_f-c_f$; a uniform region then reaches the front $x/t=u_f$. The nose closure supplies physics absent from the one-layer interior equations.