The Madden-Julian oscillation and the angular momentum balance in a barotropic ocean model

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (C1) ◽  
pp. 835-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui M. Ponte ◽  
David S. Gutzler
2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 723-730
Author(s):  
H. Nilsson ◽  
L. Davidson

This work derives and applies a method for the investigation of numerical accuracy in computational fluid dynamics. The method is used to investigate discretization errors in computations of swirling flow in water turbines. The work focuses on the conservation of a subset of the angular momentum equations that is particularly important to swirling flow in water turbines. The method is based on the fact that the discretized angular momentum equations are not necessarily conserved when the discretized linear momentum equations are solved. However, the method can be used to investigate the effect of discretization on any equation that should be conserved in the correct solution, and the application is not limited to water turbines. Computations made for two Kaplan water turbine runners and a simplified geometry of one of the Kaplan runner ducts are investigated to highlight the general and simple applicability of the method.


Author(s):  
Bob Svendsen

The purpose of the current work is the formulation of macroscopic constitutive relations, and in particular continuum flux densities, for polar continua from the underlying mass point dynamics. To this end, generic microscopic continuum field and balance relations are derived from phase space transport relations for expectation values of point fields related to additive mass point quantities. Given these, microscopic energy, linear momentum and angular momentum, balance relations are obtained in the context of the split of system forces into non-conservative and conservative parts. In addition, divergence–flux relations are formulated for the conservative part of microscopic supply-rate densities. For the case of angular momentum, two such relations are obtained. One of these is force-based, and the other is torque-based. With the help of physical and material theoretic restrictions (e.g. material frame-indifference), reduced forms of the conservative flux densities are obtained. In the last part of the work, formulation of macroscopic constitutive relations from their microscopic counterparts is investigated in the context of different spatial averaging approaches. In particular, these include (weighted) volume-averaging based on a localization function, surface averaging of normal flux densities based on Cauchy flux theory and volume averaging with respect to centre of mass.


2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Hosio ◽  
V. B. Eltsov ◽  
P. J. Heikkinen ◽  
R. Hänninen ◽  
M. Krusius ◽  
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