Title
2D Unstructured Mesh Generation For Oceanic And Coastal Tidal Models From A Localized Truncation Error Analysis With Complex Derivatives
Keywords
Complex derivatives; Localized truncation error analysis; Shallow water equations; Tidal computations; Unstructured mesh generation; Western North Atlantic tidal model domain
Abstract
A method for computing target element size for tidal, shallow water flow is developed and demonstrated. The method, Localized truncation error analysis with complex derivatives (LTEA-CD) utilizes localized truncation error estimates of the linearized shallow water momentum equations consisting of complex derivative terms. This application of complex derivatives is the chief way in which the method differs from a similar existing method, LTEA. It is shown that LTEA-CD produces results that are essentially equivalent to those of LTEA (which in turn has been demonstrated to be capable of producing practicable target element sizes) with reduced computational cost. Moreover, LTEA-CD is capable of computing truncation error and corresponding target element sizes at locations up to and including the boundary, whereas LTEA can be applied only on the interior of the model domain. We demonstrate the convergence of solutions over meshes generated with LTEA-CD using an idealized representation of the western North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
Publication Date
8-1-2007
Publication Title
International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Volume
21
Issue
7-8
Number of Pages
277-296
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1080/10618560701582500
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
35649028956 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/35649028956
STARS Citation
Parrish, D. M. and Hagen, S. C., "2D Unstructured Mesh Generation For Oceanic And Coastal Tidal Models From A Localized Truncation Error Analysis With Complex Derivatives" (2007). Scopus Export 2000s. 6438.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/6438