A compressible high-order unstructured spectral difference code for stratified convection in rotating spherical shells

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.02.047zbMATH Open1349.76548arXiv1503.00834OpenAlexW2014770615MaRDI QIDQ349773FDOQ349773

Authors: Chunlei Liang, Mark S. Miesch, Junfeng Wang 

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Abstract: We present a novel and powerful Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral-difference (CHORUS) code for simulating thermal convection and related fluid dynamics in the interiors of stars and planets. The computational geometries are treated as rotating spherical shells filled with stratified gas. The hydrodynamic equations are discretized by a robust and efficient high-order Spectral Difference Method (SDM) on unstructured meshes. The computational stencil of the spectral difference method is compact and advantageous for parallel processing. CHORUS demonstrates excellent parallel performance for all test cases reported in this paper, scaling up to 12,000 cores on the Yellowstone High-Performance Computing cluster at NCAR. The code is verified by defining two benchmark cases for global convection in Jupiter and the Sun. CHORUS results are compared with results from the ASH code and good agreement is found. The CHORUS code creates new opportunities for simulating such varied phenomena as multi-scale solar convection, core convection, and convection in rapidly-rotating, oblate stars.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00834

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zbMATH Keywords

high-orderastrophysical fluid dynamicsunstructured gridspectral difference method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76Nxx)

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Cited In (5)

• A divergence-free high-order spectral difference method with constrained transport for ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics
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Uses Software

• ASH
• CHORUS

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