Assessment of a symmetry-preserving JFNK method for atmospheric convection

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2021.108113MaRDI QIDQ6162089zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Alamgir Hossain, Jahrul M. Alam

Publication date 15 June 2023

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10411

zbMATH Keywords

convective transporteddy viscosity modelJacobian-free Newton-Krylov methodphysics-based preconditioningsecond-order finite difference methodskew-symmetryturbulence dissipation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convective turbulence (76F35) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: Numerical simulations of nonhydrostatic atmospheric flow, based on linearly decoupled semi-implicit or fully-implicit techniques, usually solve linear systems by a pre-conditioned Krylov method without preserving the skew-symmetry of convective operators. We propose to perform atmospheric simulations in such a fully-implicit manner that the difference operators preserve both the skew-symmetry and the tightly nonlinear coupling of the differential operators. We demonstrate that a symmetry-preserving Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov~(JFNK) method mimics a balance between convective transport and turbulence dissipation. We present a wavelet method as an effective symmetry preserving discretization technique. The symmetry-preserving JFNK method for solving equations of nonhydrostatic atmospheric flows has been examined using two benchmark simulations of penetrative convection -- a) dry thermals rising in a neutrally stratified and stably stratified environment, and b) urban heat island circulations for effects of the surface heat flux $H_0$ varying in the range of $25le{H}_{0}le930$Wm${}^{-2}$.The results show that an eddy viscosity model provides the necessary dissipation of the subgrid-scale modes, while the symmetry-preserving JFNK method provides the conservation of mass and energy at a satisfactory level. Comparisons of the results from a laboratory experiment of heat island circulation and a field measurement of potential temperature also suggest the modelling accuracy of the present symmetry-preserving JFNK framework.

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