“…: newtonian fluid), the solution of the Linearized Saint-Venant Equations (LSVE) has been deduced by different techniques [37,11,23,64,38,39,57,14,20] and it has been variously applied. For instance, the knowledge of its analytical expression allowed to enlighten some peculiar flow features of the waves [37,57,16], to design automatic controllers for water distribution in openchannel systems [38,39,42], to assess the applicability of simplified methods for flood routing [64], to predict the propagation of long ocean waves into channels [9], to conceptually support semi-empirical criteria aimed to predict roll-waves occurrence [43,34,17,19]. The effectiveness of these semi-empirical criteria also for frictional granular flows [18] corroborates the validity of linearized analysis for media characterised by a more sophisticated behaviour.…”