MAR 513: Mumerical Methods in Ocean Sciences:

General Info:
Syllabus;

Class schedules

Lectures and Supplementary Materials

Date # Topic Suppl Homework Lecturer
9/10 L1 Governing equations, boundary condition; forcing, mathematics classification
  Chen
9/17 L2 Finite-difference methods


Problem_1

Project_1

Chen

9/24

L3 Finite-difference mthods in multi-variable equations   Problem_2 Chen
10/1 L4 Open boundary conditions   Problem_3 Chen
10/9 L5 Finite-volume methods via finite-difference methods

Anim_1; Anim_2; Anim_3;

Anim_4

Problem_4 Chen
10/15 L6 Data assimilations: nudging, OI and adjoint methods  

Problem_5

Project_2 (mid-term exam)

Chen
10/22 L7 Data assimilations: Kalman filters, dynamics via assimilation   Problem_6

Chen

10/29 L8 Non-hydrostatic discretization    

Chen

11/5 L9 Multi-scale nesting Animations will be available in class Project_3 Chen
11/13 L10

Topography coordinates and numerical errors

    Chen
11/19 L11 Surface wave modeling     Chen

11/26

L12 Current-wave-sediment coupling     Chen
12/3 L13 Eocsystem modeling     Chen
12/10   Project summaries  

Project_4

(Final exam)