Agenda

Monday Nov 13 2006

Morning

8:00- 8:45 Registration
8:45- 9:00 Mohamed Iskandarani (opening remarks and some logistics)
9:00- 9:30 Clint Dawson invited talk 1
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Surface Water Flow
9:30-10:30 4 talks
- Ethan Kubatko
  hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for the shallow water equations
- Shintaro Bunya
  Mass Conservative Wetting and Drying Algorithm for Discontinuous Galerkin Solutions to the Shallow Water Equations
- Paul-Emile Bernard
  Dispersion analysis of Discontinuous Galerkin schemes applied to Poincaré, Kelvin and Rossby waves
- Roy A. Walters
  A FE coastal ocean model: Recent developments.
10:30- coffee break
11:00-11:30 Antonio Baptista invited talk 2
Towards observation-based benchmarking of ocean models: skill assessment for 3D coastal-margin circulation.
11:30--12:00
- Michel Rixen
  A common strategy for validation of Unstructured Grid Numerical Modelling in complex domains: harbour, straits, canyons and coastal areas
- R. L. Kolar
  Process-Oriented Tests to Validate Baroclinic Shallow Water Transport Models.

Lunch Break 12:00-2:00

Afternoon

2:00- 3:00 4 talks Adaptive modeling/stabilization
- A. Candy, C. Pain, M. Piggott, D. Ham
  Regularising subgrid scale information in the next generation of ocean models
- Luke J West, Gerard Gorman, David Ham, Peter Killworth, Chris Pain and Matthew Piggott.
  A Galerkin projection method for the locally-conservative interpolation of unstructured grids.
- Carlos A. A. Carbonel H.a, Augusto C. Galeaob
  A space-time Petrov-Galerkin finite element model for the coastal ocean circulation in limited area domain
- Emmanuel Hanert and Mike J. Baines
  A moving mesh finite element methods for the solution of the shallow water equations
3:00- 3:30 discussion I: Benchmark
Moderator: Antonio Baptista
3:30- coffee break
4:00- 5:00 4 talks (tsunami/storm surge/tidal modeling)
- Joannes Westerink, Shintaro Bunya, Casey Dietrich, Rick Luettich, Bruce Ebersole, John Atkinson, Hans Westerink, Jane Smith, Bob Jensen, Andrew Cox, Vince Cardonne, Mark Powell
  High Resolution Unstructured Grid Storm Surge Modeling for Southern Louisiana
- Michael Foreman, Patrick Cummins, Josef Cherniawsky
  An Assimilating Tidal Model for the Bering Sea
- T.C. Massey and C.A. Blain
  Performance Analysis of ADCIRC's Wetting and Drying Algorithm in 2D
- Sven Harig, D.V. Sein, D. Sidorenko, J. Behrens and J. Schröter
  Influence of bottom topography resolution on tsunami wave modelling
5:00 discussion II (Data structures for effective dynamic adaptation)
5:30-6:00 Poster session
- Olivier Gourgue, Eric Deleersnijder,, Vincent Legat, Jaya Naithani, Pierre-Denis Plisnier, Laurent White
  Throughout a finite element reduced-gravity model of Lake Tanganyika: thermocline oscillations and renewal of epilimnion water
- Jonathan Lambrechts, Paul-Emile Bernard, Sébastien Legrand, Eric Deleersnijder, Vincent Legat, Jean-François Remacle, Eric Wolanski
  Towards a high-resolution, unstructured-mesh model of the Great Barrier Reef
- Bing Wang, Oliver B. Fringer, Rorbert L. Street
  Application of an unstructured-grid, finite-volume parallel coastal ocean simulator to the Snohomish River Estuary

Evening

6:00- 7:00 Cash bar in RSMAS Commons
7:00-10:00 Dinner in the RSMAS Commons ($40/person, please indicate if interested)

Tuesday Nov 13 2006

Morning

9:00- 9:30 invited talk 3
Changsheng Chen, Robert C. Beardsley, Geoffrey Cowles
An Unstructured Grid, Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) System: Validations and Applications
9:30-10:30 4 talks
- G. R. Stuhne and W. R. Peltier
  Unstructured C-Grid Discretization for Global Ocean Modeling
- Julie Pietrzak, Robert Jan Labeur, David Ham and Guus Stelling
  Applications of unstructured mesh FV and FE models; From the Indian Ocean Tsunami to Resonant Trapped Internal Waves.
- David A. Ham
  The symmetry and stability of unstructured mesh C-grid shallow water models under the influence of Coriolis
- Zhaoqing Yang and Tarang Khangaonkar
  Modeling Tidal Circulation and Stratification in an Intertidal Estuary with an Unstructured Coastal Ocean Model and High Resolution Lidar Data
10:30- coffee break
11:00-11:30 invited talk 4
Tamay M. Ozgokmen, Paul F. Fischer
Impact of topographic roughness on product water mass formation by bottom gravity currents from a spectral element model
11:30-12:00 2 talks
- L. Bricheno, M. Piggott, C. Cotter, D.Ham, C. Pain, P. Killworth, Z. Roberts.
  Dynamically adaptive finite element analysis of open ocean deep convection; model validation and parameterisation.
- David R. Munday, David P. Marshall, and Matthew D. Piggott
  Flow Past a Cylinder Including Bottom Friction

Lunch Break 12:00-2:00

Afternoon

2:00- 3:30 6 talks (FE/FV analysis)
- Stephan Kramer
  The relation between RT0 finite element and circumcentred finite volume methods for the shallow water equations
- E. M. Tromble, R. L. Kolar, and J. J. Westerink
  Optimal Parameter Selection in GWCE-based Shallow Water Models
- Daniel Y. Le Roux
  Finite-element discretizations of the shallow-water models
- Georges Djoumna , Roger Pierre and Daniel LeRoux
  High order finite element interpolating schemes for ocean modelling.
- Laurent White, Vincent Legat, Eric Deleersnijder
  How to ensure mass conservation in a three-dimensional, free-surface, finite-element marine model on a moving mesh
- D. Michael Parrish and Scott C. Hagen
  Complex Derivatives in a Localized Truncation Error Analysis: Unstructured Grid Generation up to the Coast and into the Estuary
3:30- coffee break
4:00- 4:45 3 talks (model components)
- Olivier Lietaer, Vincent Legat, Thierry Fichefet
  Simulations of the Arctic Basin with a finite-element sea-ice model
- Frederic Dupont
  Sea ice modelling in the Canadian Archipelago
- Sebastien Blais, Laurent White, Jean-Francois Remacle, Eric Deleersnijder
  Influence of the turbulence closure scheme on the finite-element simulation of the tidal circulation around a shallow-water island
4:45-5:15 (Grid Generation and Data File Formats)
- Tom Gross, Steve Hankin, CJ Beegle-Krause, and Frank Aikman
- Roy A. Walters
  Grid Generation tools: Open source and support group?

Evening

7:00-10:00 Dinner at Casa Larios ($35/person)

Wednesday Nov 13 2006

Morning

9:00- 9:30 invited talk 5
S. Danilov, D. Sidorenko, Q. Wang and J. Schröter
Prismatic version of FEOM
9:30-10:30 4 talks
- V K. Praveen, Paul G. Myers and S. Danilov
  An initial analysis of a North Atlantic configuration of the prismatic version of FEOM
- Q. Wang, S. Danilov and J. Schröter
  Performance of z, z-σ and σ vertical coordinate in prismatic FEOM
- D. Sidorenko, S. Danilov, J. Schröter
  Prismatic setup of the inverse finite-element ocean circulation model ( IFEOM)
- Jörn Behrens
  An adaptive finite element tsunami model
10:30- coffee break
11:00-11:30 invited talk 5
M. Zijlema, G.S. Stelling, L.H. Holthuijsen, and R.J. Labeur
Modelling nearshore waves with an efficient shallow water flow model including non-hydrostatic pressure
Development of unstructured grids and associated numerical techniques for the spectral energy balance of SWAN
11:30-11:45 1 talk (Applications)
- Guoqi Han and Zeliang Wang
  A semi-prognostic finite-element circulation model for the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf

Lunch Break 12:00-2:00

Afternoon

2:00- 3:00 Discussion On Grid Generation Moderator Roy Walters
3:00- 3:30
3:30- 4:30 Discussion On Data Formats Moderator Tom Gross