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Colloquium October 20

Date: Friday October 20

Time: 16:00 to 17:00

Place: 455 McBryde (Commons Room)

Speaker: Vani Cheruvu of National Center for Atmospheric Research

Title: A Nodal High-Order Spectral Finite Volume Transport Model on the Cubed-Sphere

Abstract

Advection plays a fundamental role in atmospheric dynamics. In many atmospheric transport problems, it is essential to correctly calculate the (three-dimensional) advective transport of atmospheric constituents over the globe. High-order numerical methods offer the promise of accurately capturing these advective processes in atmospheric flows and have been shown to efficiently scale to large numbers of processors. The spectral finite volume (SFV) method was developed by Wang for conservation laws and has been used by Choi et al. for ocean modeling. Recently, we developed a transport scheme based on a high-order nodal SFV on cubed-sphere which relies on a flux-corrected transport (FCT) scheme to enforce monotonicity. The reconstruction procedure which we developed avoids the (expensive) calculation of the inverse of a matrix used by Choi et al. In this talk, I will discuss global transport scheme combined with FCT on the cubed-sphere geometry.


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