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Welcome!!
Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Modeling Laboratory at School of Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth houses an active research team with focus on coastal and estuarine circulation, frontal dynamics, bio-physical interaction, suspended sediment processes, and ecosystem modeling. We have successfully developed an unstructured grid, finite-volume, primitive equation model that is well suited for simulating the circulation and ecosystem dynamics in the deep ocean, coastal ocean and estuaries. This model has a free surface (for tidal and wave simulations), incorporates the Mellor and Yamada level 2.5 turbulent closure for parameterization of vertical mixing and can be forced by surface wind stress/heat fluxes, river discharge, precipitation/evaporation, and groundwater inputs.
The model uses the sigma-coordinate in the vertical and unstructured triangular meshes in the horizontal. The numerical model schemes employed combine the best features of the finite-difference method for computational efficiency and the finite-element method for geometric flexibility. For more information on this new model visit the FVCOM page.
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