David Stevens
CCSE, MS 50-D, LBNL
1 Cyclotron Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
phone: +510-486-6415
email: stevens@mothra.lbl.gov
Computation:
Computer used for simulation: CRAY T3E
CPU time per timestep: 33s
Time step for dynamics: 4s
Numerical Technique:
Numerical method : Finite difference
Advection scheme:
Monotone Upstream Scheme (2nd order)
Time scheme:
Forward (2nd order)
Dynamical equations: anelastic
Condensation scheme: All or Nothing
Turbulence closure: Smagorinsky.
Documentation:
M. C. Wyant, C. S. Bretherton, H. A. Rand and D. E. Stevens: Numerical Simulations and a
Conceptual Model of the Stratocumulus to Trade Cumulus Transition. {\it J. Atmos. Sci.}
Vol 54, 168-192, 1997.
Stevens, D. E., and C. S. Bretherton: A new forward-in-time advection scheme and adaptive
multilevel flow solver for nearly incompressible atmospheric flow. {\it J. Comput. Phys}.
Vol. 129, 284-295, 1997.
Almgren, A. S., J. B. Bell, P. Colella, L. H. Howell, and M. L. Welcome: A Conservative
Adaptive Projection Method for the Variable Density Incompressible Navier-Stokes
Equations. {\it J. Comput. Phys.} Submitted 1996 also available as an Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory preprint.