We present an extension of the flux globalization based well-balanced pathconservative central-upwind scheme to the one-and two-dimensional thermal rotating shallow water equations.The scheme is well-balanced in the s...We present an extension of the flux globalization based well-balanced pathconservative central-upwind scheme to the one-and two-dimensional thermal rotating shallow water equations.The scheme is well-balanced in the sense that it can exactly preserve a variety of physically relevant steady states.In the one-dimensional case,it can preserve different“lake-at-rest”equilibria,thermo-geostrophic equilibria,as well as general moving-water steady states.In the two-dimensional case,preserving general moving-water steady states is difficult,and to the best of our knowledge,none of existing schemes can achieve this ultimate goal.The proposed scheme can exactly preserve the x-and y-directional jets in the rotational frame as well as certain genuinely two-dimensional equilibria.Furthermore,our approach employs a path-conservative technique for discretizing nonconservative product terms,which are incorporated into the global fluxes.This allows the developed scheme to exactly preserve some of the discontinuous steady states as well.We provide a number of numerical examples to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed scheme over some alternative finitevolume methods.展开更多
An experimental system for forming a rotating paraboloid shaped shallow water with a free surface was conducted to study coherent vortex structures in a differentially rotating quasi two dimensional zonal flow.Flow...An experimental system for forming a rotating paraboloid shaped shallow water with a free surface was conducted to study coherent vortex structures in a differentially rotating quasi two dimensional zonal flow.Flow visualization and laser light scattering techniques were used to obtain the information of spatial flow patterns.Experimental results show that the coexistence of Coriolis effect and strong shear in latitudinal zones may lead to formation of coherent vortices.Power spectra analysis and photographs which were taken in a reference frame rotating with the observed vortices also justified the emergence,drift and evolution of persistent vortices on the large scale.Locked vortex state manifests the cyclone and anticyclone asymmetry.展开更多
In this paper,we investigate the performance of the exponential time differencing(ETD)method applied to the rotating shallow water equations.Comparing with explicit time stepping of the same order accuracy in time,the...In this paper,we investigate the performance of the exponential time differencing(ETD)method applied to the rotating shallow water equations.Comparing with explicit time stepping of the same order accuracy in time,the ETD algorithms could reduce the computational time in many cases by allowing the use of large time step sizes while still maintaining numerical stability.To accelerate the ETD simulations,we propose a localized approach that synthesizes the ETD method and overlapping domain decomposition.By dividing the original problem into many subdomain problems of smaller sizes and solving them locally,the proposed approach could speed up the calculation of matrix exponential vector products.Several standard test cases for shallow water equations of one or multiple layers are considered.The results show great potential of the localized ETD method for high-performance computing because each subdomain problem can be naturally solved in parallel at every time step.展开更多
基金supported in part by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2022M721481)The work of A.Kurganov was supported in part by NSFC grant 12171226 and by the fund of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Science and Material Design(No.2019B030301001)The work of Y.Liu was supported in part by SNFS grants 200020204917 and FZEB-0-166980.
文摘We present an extension of the flux globalization based well-balanced pathconservative central-upwind scheme to the one-and two-dimensional thermal rotating shallow water equations.The scheme is well-balanced in the sense that it can exactly preserve a variety of physically relevant steady states.In the one-dimensional case,it can preserve different“lake-at-rest”equilibria,thermo-geostrophic equilibria,as well as general moving-water steady states.In the two-dimensional case,preserving general moving-water steady states is difficult,and to the best of our knowledge,none of existing schemes can achieve this ultimate goal.The proposed scheme can exactly preserve the x-and y-directional jets in the rotational frame as well as certain genuinely two-dimensional equilibria.Furthermore,our approach employs a path-conservative technique for discretizing nonconservative product terms,which are incorporated into the global fluxes.This allows the developed scheme to exactly preserve some of the discontinuous steady states as well.We provide a number of numerical examples to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed scheme over some alternative finitevolume methods.
文摘An experimental system for forming a rotating paraboloid shaped shallow water with a free surface was conducted to study coherent vortex structures in a differentially rotating quasi two dimensional zonal flow.Flow visualization and laser light scattering techniques were used to obtain the information of spatial flow patterns.Experimental results show that the coexistence of Coriolis effect and strong shear in latitudinal zones may lead to formation of coherent vortices.Power spectra analysis and photographs which were taken in a reference frame rotating with the observed vortices also justified the emergence,drift and evolution of persistent vortices on the large scale.Locked vortex state manifests the cyclone and anticyclone asymmetry.
基金supported by U.S.Department of Energy through the grants DE-SC0016540,DE-SC0020270U.S.National Science Foundation through the grant DMS-1912626,Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina through an ASPIRE grantNatural Science Foundation of China through the grant 11871454.
文摘In this paper,we investigate the performance of the exponential time differencing(ETD)method applied to the rotating shallow water equations.Comparing with explicit time stepping of the same order accuracy in time,the ETD algorithms could reduce the computational time in many cases by allowing the use of large time step sizes while still maintaining numerical stability.To accelerate the ETD simulations,we propose a localized approach that synthesizes the ETD method and overlapping domain decomposition.By dividing the original problem into many subdomain problems of smaller sizes and solving them locally,the proposed approach could speed up the calculation of matrix exponential vector products.Several standard test cases for shallow water equations of one or multiple layers are considered.The results show great potential of the localized ETD method for high-performance computing because each subdomain problem can be naturally solved in parallel at every time step.
