Title
High-order Galerkin methods for scalable global atmospheric models
Abstract
Three different high-order finite element methods are used to solve the advection problem-two implementations of a discontinuous Galerkin and a spectral element (high-order continuous Galerkin) method. The three methods are tested using a 2D Gaussian hill as a test function, and the relative L"2 errors are compared. Using an explicit Runge-Kutta time stepping scheme, all three methods can be parallelized using a straightforward domain decomposition and are shown to be easily and efficiently scaled across multiple-processor distributed memory machines. The effect of a monotonic limiter on a DG scheme is demonstrated for a non-smooth solution. Additionally, the necessary geometry for implementing these methods on the surface of a sphere is discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.cageo.2006.12.004
Computers & Geosciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
atmospheric modeling,monotonic limiter,high-order galerkin method,discontinuous galerkin,scalable global atmospheric model,advection problem-two implementation,transport equation,different high-order finite element,explicit runge-kutta time,gaussian hill,memory machine,spectral element methods,discontinuous galerkin methods,cubed sphere,high-order methods,spectral element,dg scheme,high-order continuous galerkin,domain decomposition,finite element method,galerkin method,runge kutta,spectral element method,discontinuous galerkin method
Discontinuous Galerkin method,Data mining,Monotonic function,Applied mathematics,Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Test functions for optimization,Galerkin method,Distributed memory,Finite element method,Gaussian,Domain decomposition methods
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
8
Computers and Geosciences
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.73
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael N. Levy1291.79
Ramachandran D. Nair2827.77
Henry M. Tufo311313.95