TY - GEN
T1 - A fast algorithm for neutrally-buoyant Lagrangian particles in numerical ocean modeling
AU - Gelderloos, Renske
AU - Szalay, Alexander S.
AU - Haine, Thomas W.N.
AU - Lemson, Gerard
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Johns Hopkins University IDIES seed funding program. AS is also supported by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/3/3
Y1 - 2017/3/3
N2 - As numerical ocean simulations become more realistic, analysis of their output is increasingly time consuming. As part of a larger effort to make ocean model output more accessible for analysis, we have developed a fast particle-tracking algorithm for exploring the kinematics of the simulated flow. The algorithm is independent of operating system and fully vectorized and parallelized. Furthermore, it enables sliding of particles along solid boundaries according to the 3D along-boundary flow field. The new algorithm can easily simulate several million particle trajectories, thus opening the way for Lagrangian analysis of large-scale and multi-time scale oceanic phenomena.
AB - As numerical ocean simulations become more realistic, analysis of their output is increasingly time consuming. As part of a larger effort to make ocean model output more accessible for analysis, we have developed a fast particle-tracking algorithm for exploring the kinematics of the simulated flow. The algorithm is independent of operating system and fully vectorized and parallelized. Furthermore, it enables sliding of particles along solid boundaries according to the 3D along-boundary flow field. The new algorithm can easily simulate several million particle trajectories, thus opening the way for Lagrangian analysis of large-scale and multi-time scale oceanic phenomena.
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U2 - 10.1109/eScience.2016.7870923
DO - 10.1109/eScience.2016.7870923
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016775057
T3 - Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 12th International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2016
SP - 381
EP - 388
BT - Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 12th International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2016
Y2 - 23 October 2016 through 27 October 2016
ER -