Experiences on Running POM w/WAD:

 

 – email yours to lyo@princeton.edu.

 

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Jul/30/2007:

 

>>>>>>Contributed by l.oey; lyo@princeton.edu:<<<<<<

 

Subject: pom98_wad.f w/Smolarkiewicz scheme for water depth, nsmolar=1:

 

In general, the code is robust (and faster) with nsmolar = 0 so that water depths are not solved with Smolarkiewicz scheme (i.e. code does not call advt2d).  However, for high-resolution experiments (dx ~ 2 km and preferably less), the Smolarkiewicz option with nsmolar = 1 can give smoother results, say with less isolated thin-fluid cells.  The modified code (download here) is for the same island/seamount problem as the posted version pom98_wad.f except that we now have nsmolar = 1 and also finer dx = 2 km (previously dx = 4 km) over the island.

 

In general, the Smolarkiewicz option (i.e. nsmolar = 1) requires finer grids and maybe even a larger value of hc – see next.

 

>>>>>>Contributed by l.oey; lyo@princeton.edu:<<<<<<

 

Subject: Value of hc:

 

The default hc = 0.05 m is used to separate dry (if water depth <= hc) and wet cells, and is adequate for cases tested with the Smolarkiewicz option turned off (i.e. nsmolar = 0).  However, when nsmolar = 1, the hc may need to be larger, say hc = 0.1 m, in order to keep the model stable.  I found the following report for the ADCIRC model; it catalogs sensitivity tests for various hc (report’s Hmin) which may be useful in our case also.

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