An energetically balanced, quasi-Newton integrator for non-hydrostatic vertical atmospheric dynamics
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Publication:6339658
DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2020.109988arXiv2004.14090MaRDI QIDQ6339658
Publication date: 29 April 2020
Abstract: An energetically balanced, implicit integrator for non-hydrostatic vertical atmospheric dynamics on the sphere is presented. The integrator allows for the exact balance of energy exchanges in space and time for vertical atmospheric motions by preserving the skew-symmetry of the non-canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the compressible Euler equations. The performance of the integrator is accelerated by a preconditioning strategy that reduces the dimensionality of the inner linear system. Here we reduce the four component velocity, density, density weighted potential temperature and Exner pressure system into a single equation for the density weighted potential temperature via repeated Schur complement decomposition and the careful selection of coupling terms. As currently formulated, the integrator is based on a horizontal-vertical spatial splitting that does not permit bottom topography. The integrator is validated for standard test cases for baroclinic instability and a non-hydrostatic gravity wave on the sphere and a rising bubble in a high-resolution planar geometry, and shows robust convergence across all of these regimes.
Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65Mxx) Geophysics (86Axx)
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