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A nonhydrostatic dynamical core has been developed by using the multi-moment finite volume method that ensures the rigorous numerical conservation. To represent the spherical geometry free of polar problems, the cubed-sphere grid is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Chungang Chen , Xingliang Li , Feng Xiao , Xueshun Shen

A nonhydrostatic dynamical core has been developed by using the multi-moment finite volume method that ensures the rigorous numerical conservation. To represent the spherical geometry free of polar problems, the cubed-sphere grid is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Chungang Chen , Xingliang Li , Feng Xiao , Xueshun Shen

This paper explores how to adapt a new dynamical core to enable its use in one-way nested regional weather and climate models, where lateral boundary conditions (LBCs) are provided by a lower-resolution driving model. The dynamical core has…

The main components of an atmospheric model for numerical weather prediction are the dynamical core, which describes the resolved flow, and the physical parametrisations, which capture the effects of unresolved processes. Additionally,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alex Brown , Thomas M. Bendall , Ian Boutle , Thomas Melvin , Ben Shipway

This report summarizes the major progresses to develop the dynamic core for next-generation atmospherical model for both numerical weather prediction and climate simulation. The numerical framework is based on a general formulation,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Xingliang Li , Chungang Chen , Xueshun Shen , Feng Xiao

This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 C. J. Cotter , A. T. T. McRae

This paper presents a conforming finite element semi-discretization of the streamfunction form of the one-layer unsteady quasi-geostrophic equations, which are a commonly used model for large-scale wind-driven ocean circulation. We derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Erich L Foster , Traian Iliescu , David R. Wells

We introduce a second-order numerical scheme for compressible atmospheric motions at small to planetary scales. The collocated finite volume method treats the advection of mass, momentum, and mass-weighted potential temperature in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Tommaso Benacchio , Rupert Klein

This article surveys research on the application of compatible finite element methods to large scale atmosphere and ocean simulation. Compatible finite element methods extend Arakawa's C-grid finite difference scheme to the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Colin J. Cotter

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

The moist shallow water equations offer a promising route for advancing understanding of the coupling of physical parametrisations and dynamics in numerical atmospheric models, an issue known as 'physics-dynamics coupling'. Without moist…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Nell Hartney , Thomas M. Bendall , Jemma Shipton

We propose and analyze a combined finite volume--nonconforming finite element scheme on general meshes to simulate the two compressible phase flow in porous media. The diffusion term, which can be anisotropic and heterogeneous, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Bilal Saad , Mazen Saad

We describe discretisations of the shallow water equations on the sphere using the framework of finite element exterior calculus, which are extensions of the mimetic finite difference framework presented in Ringler, Thuburn, Klemp, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-20 C. J. Cotter , J. Thuburn

The paper develops a hybrid method for solving a system of advection--diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to advection--diffusion equations on an embedded surface. A monotone nonlinear finite volume method for equations posed in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Yuri V. Vassilevski

We show how two-dimensional mixed finite element methods that satisfy the conditions of finite element exterior calculus can be used for the horizontal discretisation of dynamical cores for numerical weather prediction on pseudo-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 C. J. Cotter , J. Shipton

Semi-discrete and fully discrete mixed finite element methods are considered for Maxwell-model-based problems of wave propagation in linear viscoelastic solid. This mixed finite element framework allows the use of a large class of existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Hao Yuan , Xiaoping Xie

We consider mechanics of composite materials in which thin inclusions are modeled by lower-dimensional manifolds. By successively applying the dimensional reduction to junctions and intersections within the material, a geometry of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Wietse M. Boon , Jan M. Nordbotten

In the manuscript we have derived the flux-form atmospheric governing equations in the general curvilinear coordinate system which is used by a high-order nonhydrostatic multi-moment constrained finite volume (MCV) dynamical core, and given…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Xingliang Li , Chungang Chen , Xueshun Shen , Feng Xiao

We provide an approach to implementing the shallow atmosphere approximation in three dimensional finite element discretisations for dynamical cores. The approach makes use of the fact that the shallow atmosphere approximation metric can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 C. J. Cotter , D. A. Ham , A. T. T. McRae , L. Mitchell , A. Natale

Atmospheric systems incorporating thermal dynamics must be stable with respect to both energy and entropy. While energy conservation can be enforced via the preservation of the skew-symmetric structure of the Hamiltonian form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Kieran Ricardo , David Lee , Kenneth Duru
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