Modeling and Computations of Shallow-Water Coastal Flows

A Strategy for the Development of Couple Atmosphere-Ocean Discontinuous Galerkin Models

Frank Giraldo

Naval Postgraduate School
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Through grants from the Office of Naval Research, we have been developing unified global and mesoscale atmospheric models targeted towards massively parallel computing. Similarly, we have recently begun work on a coastal ocean model which, while currently two-dimensional, will be extended to three-dimensions in the future. Before extending the model to three-dimensions, the model (numerics, data structured, etc.) must be designed from the beginning with coupling to an atmospheric model in mind. In this talk, I will discuss the advantages of such an approach and hope to motivate a discussion regarding the sorts of issues that one must be attuned to if storm-surge modeling coupled with hurricane tracking is to be vastly improved in the near future.

Joint work with Jim Kelly and Shiva Gopalakrishnan,Department of Applied Mathematics,Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California