THE FORMULATION OF FIDELITY SCHEMES OF PHYSICAL CONSERVATION LAWS AND IMPROVEMENTS ON A TRADITIONAL SPECTRAL MODEL OF BAROCLINIC PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS FOR NUMERICAL PREDICTION

In this paper,two formulation theorems of time-difference fidelity schemes for general quadratic and cubic physical conservation laws are respectively constructed and proved,with earlier major conserving time-discretized schemes given as special cases.These two theorems can provide new mathematical basis for solving basic formulation problems of more types of conservative time- discrete fidelity schemes,and even for formulating conservative temporal-spatial discrete fidelity schemes by combining existing instantly conserving space-discretized schemes.Besides.the two theorems can also solve two large categories of problems about linear and nonlinear computational instability. The traditional global spectral-vertical finite-difference semi-implicit model for baroclinic primitive equations is currently used in many countries in the world for operational weather forecast and numerical simulations of general circulation.The present work,however,based on Theorem 2 formulated in this paper,develops and realizes a high-order total energy conserving semi-implicit time-difference fidelity scheme for global spectral-vertical finite-difference model of baroclinic primitive equations.Prior to this,such a basic formulation problem remains unsolved for long,whether in terms of theory or practice.The total energy conserving semi-implicit scheme formulated here is applicable to real data long-term numerical integration. The experiment of thirteen FGGE data 30-day numerical integration indicates that the new type of total energy conserving semi-implicit fidelity scheme can surely modify the systematic deviation of energy and mass conserving of the traditional scheme.It should be particularly noted that,under the experiment conditions of the present work,the systematic errors induced by the violation of physical laws of conservation in the time-discretized process regarding the traditional scheme designs(called type Z errors for short)can contribute up to one-third of the total systematic root-mean-square(RMS)error at the end of second week of the integration and exceed one half of the total amount four weeks afterwards.In contrast,by realizing a total energy conserving semi-implicit fidelity scheme and thereby eliminating corresponding type Z errors, roughly an average of one-fourth of the RMS errors in the traditional forecast cases can be reduced at the end of second week of the integration,and averagely more than one-third reduced at integral time of four weeks afterwards.In addition,experiment results also reveal that,in a sense,the effects of type Z errors are no less great than that of the real topographic forcing of the model.The prospects of the new type of total energy conserving fidelity schemes are very encouraging.

LONG VALID TIME ENERGY PERFECT CONSERVATIVE FIDELITY SPECTRAL SCHEMES OF BAROTROPIC PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS

In accordance with a new compensation principle of discrete computations,the traditional meteo- rological global (pseudo-) spectral schemes of barotropic primitive equation (s) are transformed into perfect energy conservative fidelity schemes,thus resolving the problems of both nonlinear computa- tional instability and incomplete energy conservation,and raising the computational efficiency of the traditional schemes. As the numerical tests of the new schemes demonstrate,in solving the problem of energy conser- vation in operational computations,the new schemes can eliminate the (nonlinear) computational in- stability and,to some extent even the (nonlinear) computational diverging as found in the traditional schemes,Further contrasts between new and traditional schemes also indicate that,in discrete opera- tional computations,the new scheme in the case of nondivergence is capable of prolonging the valid in- tegral time of the corresponding traditional scheme,and eliminating certain kind of systematical com- putational“climate drift”,meanwhile increasing its computational accuracy and reducing its amount of computation.The working principle of this paper is also applicable to the problem concerning baroclin- ic primitive equations.

Progressive collapse of 2D reinforced concrete structures under sudden column removal

Once a column in building is removed due to gas explosion,vehicle impact,terrorist attack,earthquake or any natural disaster,the loading supported by removed column transfers to neighboring structural elements.If these elements are unable to resist the supplementary loading,they continue to fail,which leads to progressive collapse of building.In this paper,an efficient strategy to model and simulate the progressive collapse of multi-story reinforced concrete structure under sudden column removal is presented.The strategy is subdivided into several connected steps including failure mechanism creation,MBS dynamic analysis and dynamic contact simulation,the latter is solved by using conserving/decaying scheme to handle the stiff nonlinear dynamic equations.The effect of gravity loads,structure-ground contact,and structure-structure contact are accounted for as well.The main novelty in this study consists in the introduction of failure function,and the proper manner to control the mechanism creation of a frame until its total failure.Moreover,this contribution pertains to a very thorough investigation of progressive collapse of the structure under sudden column removal.The proposed methodology is applied to a six-story frame,and many different progressive collapse scenarios are investigated.The results ilustrate the efficiency of the proposed strategy.