Modeling orographic flows on unstructured meshes
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Modeling orographic flows on unstructured meshes
Piotr Smolarkiewicz, National Center for Atmospheric Research*, USA; Joanna Szmelter, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
**The National Center for Atmospheric Research is supported by the National Science The National Center for Atmospheric Research is supported by the National Science Foundation Foundation
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The twofold aim of this talk:
highlight the progress with the development of a nonhydrostatic, soundproof, unstructured-mesh model for atmospheric flows;
assess the accuracy of unstructured-mesh discretization relative to established structured-grid methods for orographic flows;
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EULAG’s key features(www.mmm.ucar.edu/eulag/)
• A suit of governing PDEs;
numerical laboratory
• Conservative, nonoscillatory,
forward in time (NFT) semi-
implicit numerics
• Robust elliptic solver; “exact
projection”
• Static /dynamic grid stretching
with 2nd order accuracy
Cloud cover and precipitation over the Alps
Gray and blue volumes denote cloud water and rainfall, respectively.
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NCARUnstructured-mesh framework for
atmospheric flows Smolarkiewicz Szmelter, pubs in JCP, IJNMF,Comp. Fluids, 2005-2011
• Differential manifolds formulation
• Finite-volume NFT numerics with a fully unstructured spatial discretization, heritage of EULAG and its predecessors (A = MPDATA)
• Focus (so far) on wave phenomena across a range of scales and Mach, Froude & Rossby numbers
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NCARThe edge-based discretisation
Edges Dual mesh, finite volumes
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Nonhydrostatic Boussinesq mountain waveSzmelter & Smolarkiewicz , Comp. Fluids, 2011
Comparison with the EULAG’s results and the linear theories (Smith 1979, Durran 2003): 3% in wavelength; 8% in propagation angle; wave amplitude loss 7% over 7 wavelenghts
NL/Uo = 2.4
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For [anelastic, pseudo-incompressible]:
Soundproof generalizations Smolarkiewicz & Szmelter, Acta Geophysica, 2011
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Numerics:
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Non-Boussinesq amplification and breakingof deep stratospheric gravity wave
Prusa et al., JAS 1996; Smolarkiewicz & Margolin, Atmos. Ocean,1997; Klein, Ann. Rev. Fluid Dyn., 2010
NL/Uo ≈ 1 , Fr ≈ 1.6;o = 2 km Hρ A(H/2)=10ho = o
isothermal reference profiles ; Hθ = 3.5 Hρ
t=1h
t=1.5h
t=2h
EULAG “reference” solution using terrain-following coordinates
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NCARunstructured-mesh “EULAG” solution, using mesh (left) mimicking terrain-following coordinates, and (right) a fully unstructured mesh
t=1.5h
Pseudo-incmpressible equations (Durran 1989)
Anelastic equations (Lipps & Hemler 1982, Lipps 1990)
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Hθ Hρ (RE: Achatz et al., JFM, 2010)
t=0.75h
ln θ
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NCARA global hydrostatic sound-proof model
Isentropic model:
Isosteric/isopycninc model: = ρ-1 , =p
,
M ≡ gh +
(Szmelter & Smolarkiewicz, J. Comput. Phys. 2010)
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Fr=2
Fr=1
Fr=0.5
Stratified (mesoscale) flow past an isolated hillon a reduced planet
4 hours
Hunt & Snyder J. Fluid Mech. 1980; Smolar. & Rotunno, J. Atmos. Sci. 1989 ; Wedi & Smolar., QJR 2009
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Smith, Advances in Geophys 1979; Hunt, Olafsson & Bougeault, QJR 2001
h=8-1o
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NCAR Conclusions:
Unstructured-mesh discretization sustains the accuracy of
structured-grid discretization and offers full flexibility in spatial resolution.
Future atmospheric models may blend structured/unstructured discretization techniques.