TY - JOUR
T1 - A fast dynamic grid adaption scheme for meteorological flows
AU - Fiedler, B. H.
AU - Trapp, R. J.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - The continuous dynamic grid adaption (CDGA) technique is applied to a compressible, three-dimensional model of a rising thermal. The computational cost, "per grid point' per time step, of using CDGA instead of a fixed, uniform Cartesian grid is about 53% of the total cost of the model with CDGA. The use of general curvilinear coordinates contributes 11.7% to this total, calculating and moving the grid 6.1%, and continually updating the transformation relations 20.7%. Costs due to calculations that involve the gridpoint velocities (as well as some substantial unexplained costs) contribute the remaining 14.5%. A simple way to limit the cost of calculating the grid is presented. The grid is adapted by solving an elliptic equation for gridpoint coordinates on a coarse grid and then interpolating the full finite-difference grid. -from Authors
AB - The continuous dynamic grid adaption (CDGA) technique is applied to a compressible, three-dimensional model of a rising thermal. The computational cost, "per grid point' per time step, of using CDGA instead of a fixed, uniform Cartesian grid is about 53% of the total cost of the model with CDGA. The use of general curvilinear coordinates contributes 11.7% to this total, calculating and moving the grid 6.1%, and continually updating the transformation relations 20.7%. Costs due to calculations that involve the gridpoint velocities (as well as some substantial unexplained costs) contribute the remaining 14.5%. A simple way to limit the cost of calculating the grid is presented. The grid is adapted by solving an elliptic equation for gridpoint coordinates on a coarse grid and then interpolating the full finite-difference grid. -from Authors
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U2 - 10.1175/1520-0493(1993)121<2879:AFDGAS>2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1175/1520-0493(1993)121<2879:AFDGAS>2.0.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0027806555
VL - 121
SP - 2879
EP - 2888
JO - Monthly Weather Review
JF - Monthly Weather Review
SN - 0027-0644
IS - 10
ER -