Resolution effects and enslaved finite-difference schemes for a double gyre, shallow-water model

DOI10.1007/S001620050044MaRDI QIDQ1390001zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Don A. Jones, Andrew C. Poje, L. G. Margolin

Publication date 5 November 1998

Published in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s001620050044

zbMATH Keywords

beta planeRossby deformation radiussinusoidally varying wind forcingstochastic solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Review text

We study numerical solutions of the reduced-gravity shallow-water equation on a beta plane, subjected to a sinusoidally varying wind forcing leading to the formation of a double gyre circulation. We present a method applicable to any finite-difference scheme, which effectively increasees the spatial resolution of the given algorithm without changing its temporal stability or memory requirements. This enslaving method makes use of properties of the governing equations in the absence of time derivatives to reduce the overall truncation error. By examining statistical measures of stochastic solutions at resolutions near the Rossby radius, we show that the enslaved schemes are capable of reproducing statistics of standard scheme computed at twice the resolution.

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