Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Volume 290, Issue -, Pages 274-297Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2015.02.045
Keywords
Compound finite element; Dual finite element; Mimetic; Shallow water
Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council under the GungHo project [NE/I021136/1, NE/I02013X/1, NE/K006762/1, NE/K006789/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/K006762/1, NE/I021136/1, NE/K006789/1, NE/I02013X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/K006762/1, NE/I02013X/1, NE/K006789/1, NE/I021136/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A new numerical method is presented for solving the shallow water equations on a rotating sphere using quasi-uniform polygonal meshes. The method uses special families of finite element function spaces to mimic key mathematical properties of the continuous equations and thereby capture several desirable physical properties related to balance and conservation. The method relies on two novel features. The first is the use of compound finite elements to provide suitable finite element spaces on general polygonal meshes. The second is the use of dual finite element spaces on the dual of the original mesh, along with suitably defined discrete Hodge star operators to map between the primal and dual meshes, enabling the use of a finite volume scheme on the dual mesh to compute potential vorticity fluxes. The resulting method has the same mimetic properties as a finite volume method presented previously, but is more accurate on a number of standard test cases. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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