ROMS and SUNTANS Continued Development and Support of AESOP and NLIWI

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to develop a parallel ocean simulation tool that is capable of simulating processes on a wide range of scales by coupling two vastly different codes, namely the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS, Shchepetkin and McWilliams (2005)), and the Stanford Unstructured Nonhydrostatic Terrain-following Adaptive Navier-Stokes Simulator (SUNTANS, Fringer et al. (2006)). The tool will adaptively nest SUNTANS, an unstructured-grid, coastal-scale code, into ROMS, a curvilinear grid, regional-scale code, in regions where the motions are small-scale and so nonhydrostatic. The nested tool will be applied to study highly nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea in order to develop an improved understanding of mechanisms that govern their generation, propagation, and dissipation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA533832

Entities

People

  • Oliver Fringer
  • Robert Lynnwood Street

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Froude Number
  • Gravity Waves
  • High Resolution
  • Internal Waves
  • Oceans
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Solitons
  • South China Sea
  • Systems Engineering
  • Terrain Following
  • Tidal Currents
  • Two Dimensional
  • Waves

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)