An application of the Arnoldi method to a geophysical fluid dynamics problem

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(87)90159-8MaRDI QIDQ1085711zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(87)90159-8

zbMATH Keywords

atmospheregeneral circulation modeliterative Arnoldi methodKrylov subspacelarge linear systemslinear waveslinearized barotropic and baroclinic primitive equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Review text

A new method to find solutions of large linear systems, based on a projection on the Krylov subspace, is shown to be successful when applied to the linearized barotropic and baroclinic primitive equations. The scheme consists of projecting the original linear system on the Krylov subspace, thereby reducing the dimensionality of the matrix to be inverted in order to obtain the solution. The iterative Arnoldi method reaches a solution even using a Krylov subspace ten times smaller than the original space of the problem. This generality allows us to treat the important problem of propagation of linear waves in the atmosphere from a more general point of view. A larger class (nonzonally symmetric) of basic states can now be treated for the baroclinic primitive equations. These kinds of problems leading to large unsymmetrical linear system of order 10000 or more can now be successfully tackled by the Krylov approach. Numerical results of a general circulation model, linearized around a nonsymmetrical basic state, are here shown for various numbers of degrees of freedom.

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