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|One-line model description=The Unstructured Grid Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model | |One-line model description=The Unstructured Grid Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model | ||
|Extended model description=FVCOM is a prognostic, unstructured-grid, finite-volume, free-surface, 3-D primitive equation coastal ocean circulation model developed by UMASSD-WHOI joint efforts. The model consists of momentum, continuity, temperature, salinity and density equations and is closed physically and mathematically using turbulence closure submodels. The horizontal grid is comprised of unstructured triangular cells and the irregular bottom is preseented using generalized terrain-following coordinates. The General Ocean Turbulent Model (GOTM) developed by Burchard’s research group in Germany (Burchard, 2002) has been added to FVCOM to provide optional vertical turbulent closure schemes. FVCOM is solved numerically by a second-order accurate discrete flux calculation in the integral form of the governing equations over an unstructured triangular grid. This approach combines the best features of finite-element methods (grid flexibility) and finite-difference methods (numerical efficiency and code simplicity) and provides a much better numerical representation of both local and global momentum, mass, salt, heat, and tracer conservation. The ability of FVCOM to accurately solve scalar conservation equations in addition to the topological flexibility provided by unstructured meshes and the simplicity of the coding structure has make FVCOM ideally suited for many coastal and interdisciplinary scientific applications. | |Extended model description=FVCOM is a prognostic, unstructured-grid, finite-volume, free-surface, 3-D primitive equation coastal ocean circulation model developed by UMASSD-WHOI joint efforts. The model consists of momentum, continuity, temperature, salinity and density equations and is closed physically and mathematically using turbulence closure submodels. The horizontal grid is comprised of unstructured triangular cells and the irregular bottom is preseented using generalized terrain-following coordinates. The General Ocean Turbulent Model (GOTM) developed by Burchard’s research group in Germany (Burchard, 2002) has been added to FVCOM to provide optional vertical turbulent closure schemes. FVCOM is solved numerically by a second-order accurate discrete flux calculation in the integral form of the governing equations over an unstructured triangular grid. This approach combines the best features of finite-element methods (grid flexibility) and finite-difference methods (numerical efficiency and code simplicity) and provides a much better numerical representation of both local and global momentum, mass, salt, heat, and tracer conservation. The ability of FVCOM to accurately solve scalar conservation equations in addition to the topological flexibility provided by unstructured meshes and the simplicity of the coding structure has make FVCOM ideally suited for many coastal and interdisciplinary scientific applications. | ||
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|Source web address=http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/FVCOM/Source/code.htm | |Source web address=http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/FVCOM/Source/code.htm | ||
|Program license type=Other | |Program license type=Other | ||
|Program license type other=FVCOM End User License Agreement University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth | |Program license type other=FVCOM End User License Agreement University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth | ||
|OpenMI compliant=No but possible | |OpenMI compliant=No but possible | ||
|CCA component=No but possible | |CCA component=No but possible |
Revision as of 17:13, 21 March 2011
Contact
Name | Changsheng Chen |
Type of contact | Model developer |
Institute / Organization | University of Massachusetts |
Postal address 1 | 706 South Rodney French Blvd |
Postal address 2 | |
Town / City | Dartmouth |
Postal code | 02744 |
State | Massachusetts |
Country | USA"USA" is not in the list (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, ...) of allowed values for the "Country" property. |
Email address | c1chen@umassd.edu |
Phone | 508-910-6388 |
Fax | (508) 910-6371 |
Name | Robert Beardsley |
Type of contact | Model developer |
Institute / Organization | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Postal address 1 | |
Postal address 2 | |
Town / City | Woods Hole |
Postal code | 02543 |
State | |
Country | USA"USA" is not in the list (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, ...) of allowed values for the "Additional country" property. |
Email address | rbeardsley@whoi.edu |
Phone | +1 508 289 2536 |
Fax | +1 508 457 2181 |
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