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<div class="">Hope this message finds you well. I’ve been running simple 2D simulations with internal tides driven by oscillatory mean flows over rough bathymetry. When diagnosing the volume-integrated tracer variance budget, although the l.h.s. (time-tendency)
and r.h.s (advection + diffusion) terms balance exactly, I found some extra destruction of variance coming from the volume integral of the advection term using nonlinear advection schemes (scheme 33) which is as large as the diffusion term. Theoretically this
volume integral of variance advection should vanish... Switching to a centered 2nd order scheme (scheme 2) kills this contribution but the total variance destruction rate becomes about twice as large which, according to the output, can be explained by the
noisy tracer field and thus a larger gradient term.</div>
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<div class="">I was wondering if anyone had experience beating down this *spurious* contribution from the advection term? I noticed this contribution not only in the variance budget but also other 2nd order budgets involving a volume integral.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">Xiaozhou</div>
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Xiaozhou Ruan</div>
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Postdoctoral researcher</div>
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Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences</div>
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email: <a href="mailto:xiaozhour@caltech.edu" class="">xruan@mit.edu</a></div>
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web: <a href="http://www.its.caltech.edu/~xruan" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">http://www.mit.edu/~xruan</a></div>
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