A particle-mesh method for the shallow water equations near geostrophic balance

  • Authors:
  • Jason Frank;Sebastian Reich

  • Affiliations:
  • CWI, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Imperial College, Department of Mathematics, 180 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we outline a new particle-mesh method for rapidly rotating shallow water flows based on a set of regularized equations of motion. The time-stepping method uses an operator splitting of the equations into an Eulerian gravity wave part and a Lagrangian advection part. An essential ingredient is the advection of absolute vorticity by means of translated radial basis functions. We show that this implies exact conservation of enstrophy. The method is tested on two model problems based on the qualitative features of the solutions obtained (i.e., dispersion or smoothness of potential vorticity contours) as well as on the increase in mean divergence level.