Explosive Convective Adjustment in a Hydrostatic Ocean Model.

Abstract

The hydrostatic fourth-order-accurate semi-collocated (modified Arakawa "a" grid) DieCAST Ocean Model simulates explosive convective adjustment, including less-than-complete watermass mixing and counter diffusive processes not addressable by popular diffusive convective adjustment approaches. This is shown by model application to explosively unstable 3-d flow over a slope. Even with such explosively unstable initial state, the hydrostatic DieCAST model gives robust and rapid stabilization through unstable plume dynamics. The degree of watermass mixing during convective adjustment is sensitive to the model Prandtl number, which may be chosen to mimic the effective turbulent Prandtl number of convective adjustment in the ocean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1998
Accession Number
ADA342267

Entities

People

  • David E. Dietrich

Organizations

  • Mississippi State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Convection
  • Explosives
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Military Research
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Prandtl Number
  • Regions
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography
  • Universities

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers