The Accuracy, Efficiency and Stability of Three Numerical Models with Application to Open Ocean Problems.

Abstract

The inviscid barotropic vorticity equation is integrated under a variety of assumed initial and boundary conditions corresponding to linear and nonlinear box modes, forced nonlinear box modes, north wall forced modes, and linear and nonlinear Rossby waves (with and without mean advection). The former two classes of problems are defined within a closed domain. The latter two are partially or totally open to a specified external environment and therefore represent prototype limited-area calculations for the ocean.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA052827

Entities

People

  • A. R. Robinson
  • D. B. Haidvogel
  • E. E. Schulman

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Advection
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chebyshev Polynomials
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Efficiency
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Filtration
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Models
  • Numbers
  • Numerical Integration
  • Poisson Equation
  • Polynomials
  • Walls

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)