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Title: Arbitrarily high-order accurate simulations of compressible rotationally constrained convection using a transfinite mapping on cubed-sphere grids
We present two major improvements over the Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral difference (CHORUS) code published in Wang et al., “A compressible high-order unstructured spectral difference code for stratified convection in rotating spherical shells,” J. Comput. Phys. 290, 90–111 (2015). The new code is named CHORUS++ in this paper. Subsequently, we perform a series of efficient simulations for rotationally constrained convection (RCC) in spherical shells. The first improvement lies in the integration of the high-order spectral difference method with a boundary-conforming transfinite mapping on cubed-sphere grids, thus ensuring exact geometric representations of spherical surfaces on arbitrary sparse grids. The second improvement is on the adoption of higher-order elements (sixth-order) in CHORUS++ vs third-order elements for the original CHORUS code. CHORUS++ enables high-fidelity RCC simulations using sixth-order elements on very coarse grids. To test the accuracy and efficiency of using elements of different orders, CHORUS++ is applied to a laminar solar benchmark, which is characterized by columnar banana-shaped convective cells. By fixing the total number of solution degrees of freedom, the computational cost per time step remains unchanged. Nevertheless, using higher-order elements in CHORUS++ resolves components of the radial energy flux much better than using third-order elements. To obtain converged predictions, using sixth-order elements is 8.7 times faster than using third-order elements. This significant speedup allows global-scale fully compressible RCC simulations to reach equilibration of the energy fluxes on a small cluster of just 40 cores. In contrast, CHORUS simulations were performed by Wang et al. on supercomputers using approximately 10 000 cores. Using sixth-order elements in CHORUS++, we further carry out global-scale solar convection simulations with decreased rotational velocities. Interconnected networks of downflow lanes emerge and surround broader and weaker regions of upflow fields. A strong inward kinetic energy flux compensated by an enhanced outward enthalpy flux appears. These observations are all consistent with those published in the literature. Furthermore, CHORUS++ can be extended to magnetohydrodynamic simulations with potential applications to the hydromagnetic dynamo processes in the interiors of stars and planets.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2310372
PAR ID:
10488554
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
AIP Publishing
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physics of Fluids
Volume:
35
Issue:
8
ISSN:
1070-6631
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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