[MITgcm-support] OLy in a 2D case (verification/internal_wave)

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for you comment.
I looked to this test-experiment, and have the impression that 
it does not use any numerical scheme that requires larger overlap.
I will check again and change it to 2 (Olx & Oly), which is the minimum
overlap size.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:24:49PM +0100, Nicolas Grisouard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I ran the verification test "internal_wave" with OLy=2 instead of OLy=3  
> in SIZE.h. As sNy=1 in this case, this makes quite a difference.
>
> By doing this, I saved 23% of CPU time and the output files seem to be  
> identical (I substracted the two final U fields and the maximum absolute  
> value of the resulting field is rigourously equal to zero). It didn't  
> work with OLy=1 (output files are different).
>
> So as this test might be the one some people interested in 2D will start  
> with (this was my case about 2 years ago), and unless the-ones-who-know  
> have an objection, it might be a good idea to set OLy=2 in this case. I  
> just saw that in the new version, OLy=4, so if what I said still holds,  
> people working on this kind of configuration would see their computing  
> times roughly divided by 2.
>
> Thank you for checking if its true,
> Nicolas
>
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