[MITgcm-support] Immersed Boundary Condition in MITgcm

[Martin Losch]

Hi Justin,

have you found an answer to your question?
As far as I know, "fully immersed boundary conditions”, as they are used in CFD problems to simulate moving boundaries, are not implemented in the MITgcm. Currently you can have lateral boundaries, bottom boundaries (ocean floor), and boundaries at the top of the water column (for example, stationary ice shelves). You could try to implement your sphere geometry (probably in model/src/ini_masks_etc.F), but I am not sure if it would work with the code ...

Martin

> On 20 Jul 2016, at 20:09, Justin Brown <jumbrown at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello MITgcm support community,
> 
> I’m just beginning to use MITgcm and am attempting to simulate the wake behind a solid sphere traveling through a Cartesian box. A preliminary search through the documentation hasn’t revealed an obvious method to do this with the tools built-in to MITgcm, but I’ve seen several papers using MITgcm for similar problems. Is there a package for fully immersed boundary conditions?
> 
> Thank you,
> Justin Brown
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