Publication Date:
2007-02-01
Description:
The shallow-water equations may be posed in the form df /dt = {F, H, Z}, where H is the energy, Z is the potential enstrophy, and the Nambu bracket {F, H, Z} is completely antisymmetric in its three arguments. This makes it very easy to construct numerical models that conserve analogs of the energy and potential enstrophy; one need only discretize the Nambu bracket in such a way that the antisymmetry property is maintained. Using this strategy, this paper derives explicit finite-difference approximations to the shallow-water equations that conserve mass, circulation, energy, and potential enstrophy on a regular square grid and on an unstructured triangular mesh. The latter includes the regular hexagonal grid as a special case.
Print ISSN:
0022-4928
Electronic ISSN:
1520-0469
Topics:
Geography
,
Geosciences
,
Physics
Permalink