Distributed Implementation and Verification of Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Nonhydrostatic Ocean Processes

摘要

Nonhydrostatic, multiscale processes are an important part of our understanding of ocean dynamics. However, resolving these dynamics with traditional computational techniques can often be prohibitively expensive. We apply the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) finite element methodology to perform computationally efficient, high-order, nonhydrostatic ocean modeling by solving the Navier-Stokes equations with the Boussinesq approximation. In this work, we introduce a distributed implementation of our HDG projection method algorithm. We provide numerical experiments to verify our methodology using the method of manufactured solutions and provide preliminary benchmarking for our distributed implementation that highlight the advantages of the HDG methodology in the context of distributed computing. Lastly, we present simulations in which we capture nonhydrostatic internal waves that form as a result of tidal interactions with ocean topography. First, we consider the case of tidally-driven oscillatory flow over an abrupt, shallow seamount, and next, the case of strongly-stratified, oscillatory flow over a tall seamount. We analyze and compare our simulations to other results in literature.