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Energy conserving upwinded compatible finite element schemes for the rotating shallow water equations
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Energy conserving upwinded compatible finite element schemes for the rotating shallow water equations

Golo A. Wimmer, Colin J. Cotter and Werner Bauer
Journal of computational physics, Vol.401, p.109016
15/01/2020

Abstract

Compatible finite element methods Hamiltonian mechanics Shallow water equations Upwinding
•Combine compatible finite element method with Hamiltonian framework.•Include upwinding schemes while maintaining energy conservation.•Obtain more stable fields, with energy conservation up to machine precision. We present an energy conserving space discretisation of the rotating shallow water equations using compatible finite elements. It is based on an energy and enstrophy conserving Hamiltonian formulation as described in McRae and Cotter (2014), and extends it to include upwinding in the velocity and depth advection to increase stability. Upwinding for velocity in an energy conserving context was introduced for the incompressible Euler equations in Natale and Cotter (2017), while upwinding in the depth field in a Hamiltonian finite element context is newly described here. The energy conserving property is validated by coupling the spatial discretisation to an energy conserving time discretisation. Further, the discretisation is demonstrated to lead to an improved field development with respect to stability when upwinding in the depth field is included.

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