Ocean Modeling

Advanced topics in ocean modeling including methods for shallow water, primitive, and nonhydrostatic equations on Cartesian, curvilinear, and unstructured, finite-volume grid systems. Topics include accuracy and stability analyses, free-surface methods, nonhydrostatic solvers, turbulence modeling, wave modeling, vertical coordinate systems, and advanced Eulerian and Lagrangian advection techniques. Prerequisites: Fluid mechanics at the level of CEE262A or ME351A, linear algebra at the level of CME 200, and numerical methods at the level of CME 206, which can be taken concurrently. This course will not be offered AY 2024-25. It will be offered 2025-26.