OM44D:
Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling of Coastal and Regional Ocean Processes: Recent Progress and Challenges for the Future I Posters


Session ID#: 29743

Session Description:
Coastal ocean flows involve phenomena at dramatically different spatial and temporal scales, ranging from micro-scale phenomena (wave-current interaction, sediment transport, mixing at MHK turbines, and biogeochemistry) to meso-scale (coastal fronts, tides, and storm surge), and beyond. Realistic representations of these processes require ocean models to take on a variety of complicating factors such as complex shoreline geometry and bathymetry; strong baroclinic-barotropic coupling and deviation from hydrostasy; and turbulence, localized buoyancy, and mixing along sharp interfaces. Numerical modeling of coastal ocean flows, although successful, has typically been limited to individual phenomena and relatively narrow scales. More robust and high-fidelity ocean modeling requires novel numerical techniques incorporating all relevant physical scales with multiscale and multiphysics approaches. Computational methods such as adaptive mesh refinement, embedded boundaries, domain decomposition, and model integration have evolved over the last decade to address these complex issues. This session provides a forum to present such techniques, potentially operating together in ocean models, and discuss best practices. We invite contributions addressing theoretical and numerical problems, validation and benchmarking, data assimilation, and applications to idealized and realistic situations.
Primary Chair:  Alberto D Scotti, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Co-chairs:  Hansong Tang, City College of New York, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Jose Castillo, San Diego State University, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States and Edward Santilli, Philadelphia University, College of Health, Science and Liberal Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moderators:  Edward Santilli, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Hansong Tang, CCNY, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States and Jose Castillo, San Diego State University, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Edward Santilli, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Index Terms:

1906 Computational models, algorithms [INFORMATICS]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4568 Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Improving Global Barotropic Tides by Two-way Nested High-resolution Domains (317611)
Chan-Hoo Jeon1, Maarten C Buijsman1, Alan J Wallcraft2, Jay F Shriver3, Patrick J Hogan2, Brian K Arbic4 and James G Richman5, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)US Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)COAPS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Validation of the nonhydrostatic General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model (GCCOM) for Stratified Flows (304939)
Mariangel Garcia, Ph.D1, Paul F Choboter2, Ryan K Walter3 and Jose Castillo1, (1)San Diego State University, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)California Polytechnic State University, Mathematics Department, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (3)California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

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