Numerical Analysis Seminar

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Speaker: Clint Dawson, UT of Austin
Title: Modeling coastal hydrodynamics using h-p adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Place: Blocker 628

Abstract

Coastal hydrodynamic models can be used to study many phenomena, including hurricane storm surges, sediment transport, contaminant transport, and circulation/wave coupling. Circulation in shallow coastal waters is complicated by highly irregular geometries, wetting and drying, and near-shore/continental shelf/deep water coupling, which results in flows exhibiting multiple scales. Discontinuous Galerkin methods have proved to be advantageous for these complex flows. In this talk we will report on the development of a new, higher order discontinuous Galerkin-based hydrodynamic model under development at the University of Notre Dame and The University of Texas at Austin. Applications to sediment and contaminant transport, and the modeling of hurricane storm surges will be discussed.

Last revised: 03/18/08 By: abnersg@math