Continuous Dynamic Grid Adaptation

A DOE CCPP Project

(Project ID: 0007262 - Award Register # ER63259)

Project Principal Investigators

Joseph Prusa Teraflux Corporation 952 NW Eighth Street Boca Raton, FL 33486 USA prusa@iastate.edu jprusa@bellsouth.net TEL: +1-561-417-8571 William Gutowski Dept. Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. Agronomy 3021 Agronomy Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 USA gutowski@iastate.edu TEL: +1-515-294-5632 FAX: +1-515-294-2619

Papers (abstracts)

• Prusa, J. M., P. K. Smolarkiewicz and A. A. Wyszogrodzki, 2001: Simulations of gravity wave induced turbulence using 512 pe Cray T3E, Int. Journ. Ap. Math. Comp. Sci., 11, 883-897.

• Smolarkiewicz, P. K., and J. M. Prusa, 2002: Forward-in-time differencing for fluids: Simulation of geophysical turbulence, in Turbulent Flow Computation, Eds. D. Drikakis and B.J. Guertz, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 207-240.

• Smolarkiewicz, P. K., and J. M. Prusa, 2002: VLES modeling of geophysical fluids with nonoscillatory forward-in-time schemes, Int. J. Num. Methods Fluids, 39, 799-819.

• Prusa, J. M., and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2002: An all-scale anelastic model for geophysical flows: Dynamic grid deformation, Journ. Comp. Phys. (submitted).

Presentations

• CCPP meeting (1-3 October 2001)
• CCPP meeting (18-20 October 2004)

Reports

• Progress Report (2002)

• Progress Report (2003)

• Linda Mudoni's term paper analyzing Held-Suarez flow for different forcing parameters (May 2003).

• Linda Mudoni's Thesis proposal to look at gravity waves (October 2003).

Ongoing

• Topography for a stretched grid - smoothing and interpolating.
• Vorticity fields for a case with Held-Suarez forcing and an idelalized Andes mountain range.

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