A forward-in-time advection scheme and adaptive multilevel flow solver for nearly incompressible atmospheric flow (Q675150)

We present a new forward-in-time advection method for nearly incompressible flow, MU, and its application to an adaptive multilevel flow solver for atmospheric flows. MU is a modification of the known UTOPIA scheme. MU, like UTOPIA, is based on third-order accurate semi-Lagrangian multdimensional upwinding for constant velocity flows. For varying velocity fields, MU is a second-order conservative method. This flow solver can also be implemented with any forward-in-time advection scheme.