Advection on Cut-Cell Grids for an Idealized Mountain of Constant Slope
Advection on Cut-Cell Grids for an Idealized Mountain of Constant Slope
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DOI:
10.1175/mwr-d-16-0308.1
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发表时间:
2017-04
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
J. Steppeler;J. Klemp
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作者:
J. Steppeler;J. Klemp
AbstractCut cells use regular or nearly regular polygonal cells to describe fields. For a given orography, some cells may be completely under the mountain, some completely above the mountain, and some are partially filled with air. While there are reports indicating considerably improved simulations with cut cells, inaccuracies may arise with some approximations, producing noise in fields near the surface. This behavior may depend strongly on the approximations made for the advection terms near the surface. This paper investigates the accuracy of advection for numerical schemes for a nondivergent flow near a mountain surface. The schemes use C-grid staggering with densities located at cell centers or on the corners of cells. Also, a nonconserving scheme is considered, which was used in the past with real-data cut-cell simulations. Since the cut cells near the surface create an irregular resolution, the accuracy and order of some approximations may break down near the surface. The objective of this paper i...