DMS Applied Mathematics Seminar

Speaker: Thi Thao Phuong Hoang  Auburn University

Title:Conservative explicit local time-stepping schemes for the shallow water equations

Abstract: We present explicit local time-stepping (LTS) schemes of second and third order accuracy for the shallow water equations. The system is discretized in space by a C-grid staggering method, namely the TRiSK scheme adopted in MPAS-Ocean, a global ocean model with the capability of resolving multiple resolutions within a single simulation. The time integration is designed based on the strong stability preserving Runge-Kutta (SSP-RK) methods, but different time step sizes can be used in different regions of the domain and are only restricted by respective local CFL conditions. The proposed schemes preserve some important physical quantities in the discrete sense, such as exact conservation of the mass and potential vorticity and conservation of the total energy within time truncation errors. Moreover, they inherit the natural parallelism of the original explicit global time-stepping schemes. Extensive numerical tests are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed algorithms.