Date of Award
12-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Mathematical Sciences
Committee Chair/Advisor
Dr. Qingshan Chen
Committee Member
Dr. Sibusiso Mabuza
Committee Member
Dr. Fei Xue
Abstract
An energy- and enstrophy-conserving and optimally-dispersive numerical scheme for the shallow- water equations is accelerated through implementation in the GPU environment. Previous research showed the viability of the numerical scheme under standard shallow-water test cases, but was limited in applications by computation time constraints. We overcome these limitations by paral- lelizing the numerical computation in the GPU environment. We also extend the capabilities of the implementation to support not just a single shallow-water layer, but multiple. These improvements significantly expand the range of tests that can be used to exercise the model, and enable better understanding of the power of the numerical scheme at large scales.
Recommended Citation
Stevens, Alexander, "A Parallelized and Layered Model for the Shallow-Water Equations" (2021). All Theses. 3706.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/3706