A high-order triangular discontinuous Galerkin oceanic shallow water model

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 899-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. X. Giraldo ◽  
T. Warburton
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Discontinuous Galerkin ◽  
High Order ◽  
Water Model ◽  
Shallow Water Model

scholarly journals A Parallel High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow Water Model

2009 ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claes Eskilsson ◽  
Yaakoub El-Khamra ◽  
David Rideout ◽  
Gabrielle Allen ◽  
Q. Jim Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Discontinuous Galerkin ◽  
High Order ◽  
Water Model ◽  
Shallow Water Model

Diffusion Experiments with a Global Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow-Water Model

2009 ◽  
Vol 137 (10) ◽  
pp. 3339-3350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramachandran D. Nair
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Discontinuous Galerkin ◽  
Water Model ◽  
Order System ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Shallow Water Model ◽  
First Order ◽  
Advection Diffusion Equation ◽  
Diffusion Scheme ◽  
Cubed Sphere

Abstract A second-order diffusion scheme is developed for the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) global shallow-water model. The shallow-water equations are discretized on the cubed sphere tiled with quadrilateral elements relying on a nonorthogonal curvilinear coordinate system. In the viscous shallow-water model the diffusion terms (viscous fluxes) are approximated with two different approaches: 1) the element-wise localized discretization without considering the interelement contributions and 2) the discretization based on the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method. In the LDG formulation the advection–diffusion equation is solved as a first-order system. All of the curvature terms resulting from the cubed-sphere geometry are incorporated into the first-order system. The effectiveness of each diffusion scheme is studied using the standard shallow-water test cases. The approach of element-wise localized discretization of the diffusion term is easy to implement but found to be less effective, and with relatively high diffusion coefficients, it can adversely affect the solution. The shallow-water tests show that the LDG scheme converges monotonically and that the rate of convergence is dependent on the coefficient of diffusion. Also the LDG scheme successfully eliminates small-scale noise, and the simulated results are smooth and comparable to the reference solution.

scholarly journals A high-order conservative collocation scheme and its application to global shallow water equations

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 4251-4290 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Chen ◽  
X. Li ◽  
X. Shen ◽  
F. Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Control Volume ◽  
High Order ◽  
High Order Accuracy ◽  
Water Model ◽  
Shallow Water Model ◽  
Order Accuracy ◽  
Flux Function ◽  
Dependent Variables

Abstract. An efficient and conservative collocation method is proposed and used to develop a global shallow water model in this paper. Being a nodal type high-order scheme, the present method solves the point-wise values of dependent variables as the unknowns within each control volume. The solution points are arranged as Gauss–Legendre points to achieve the high-order accuracy. The time evolution equations to update the unknowns are derived under the flux-reconstruction (FR) framework (Huynh, 2007). Constraint conditions used to build the spatial reconstruction for the flux function include the point-wise values of flux function at the solution points, which are computed directly from the dependent variables, as well as the numerical fluxes at the boundaries of the control volume which are obtained as the Riemann solutions between the adjacent cells. Given the reconstructed flux function, the time tendencies of the unknowns can be obtained directly from the governing equations of differential form. The resulting schemes have super convergence and rigorous numerical conservativeness. A three-point scheme of fifth-order accuracy is presented and analyzed in this paper. The proposed scheme is adopted to develop the global shallow-water model on the cubed-sphere grid where the local high-order reconstruction is very beneficial for the data communications between adjacent patches. We have used the standard benchmark tests to verify the numerical model, which reveals its great potential as a candidate formulation for developing high-performance general circulation models.

scholarly journals A Discontinuous Galerkin Global Shallow Water Model

2005 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 876-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramachandran D. Nair ◽  
Stephen J. Thomas ◽  
Richard D. Loft
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Discontinuous Galerkin ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Time Integration ◽  
Curvilinear Coordinates ◽  
Basis Set ◽  
Water Model ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Shallow Water Model ◽  
Cubed Sphere

A discontinuous Galerkin shallow water model on the cubed sphere is developed, thereby extending the transport scheme developed by Nair et al. The continuous flux form nonlinear shallow water equations in curvilinear coordinates are employed. The spatial discretization employs a modal basis set consisting of Legendre polynomials. Fluxes along the element boundaries (internal interfaces) are approximated by a Lax–Friedrichs scheme. A third-order total variation diminishing Runge–Kutta scheme is applied for time integration, without any filter or limiter. Numerical results are reported for the standard shallow water test suite. The numerical solutions are very accurate, there are no spurious oscillations in test case 5, and the model conserves mass to machine precision. Although the scheme does not formally conserve global invariants such as total energy and potential enstrophy, conservation of these quantities is better preserved than in existing finite-volume models.

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