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SUNTANS User Guide
Stanford Unstructured Nonhydrostatic Terrain-following Adaptive Navier-Stokes Simulator
O. B. Fringer
Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory,
Nov 16, 2011
Stanford University
Contents
Downloading and installing SUNTANS
Downloading and installing the latest source
Notes on Parmetis
Notes on mpich
Keeping up to date with CVS
Running SUNTANS
Creating or Reading in Triangular Grids
Using the triangle libraries
Reading triangular grids from a file
Specifying initial and boundary conditions
Initial conditions
Specifying boundary conditions
Open or velocity-specified boundary conditions
Open or stage-specified boundary conditions
No-slip boundary conditions
Specifying heat flux
Restarting Runs
SUNTANS Examples
Running the examples
Tidal forcing
Grid and bathymetry
Initial conditions
Boundary conditions
Running the example
Time accuracy
Grid
Initial conditions
Boundary conditions
Running the test
Lock exchange
Grid
Initial conditions
Boundary conditions
Running the test
Boundary condition example
Grid
Initial conditions
Boundary conditions
Running the test
Cavity flow
Grid
Initial conditions
Boundary conditions
Running the test
Internal waves
Grid
Initial conditions
Boundary conditions
Running the test
Parameter listing in suntans.dat
Physical/Computational parameters
Nkmax:
stairstep: Boolean
rstretch:
or
CorrectVoronoi: Boolean
VoronoiRatio
vertgridcorrect: Boolean
IntDepth: Boolean
dzsmall: No longer used
scaledepth: Boolean
scaledepthfactor
thetaramptime:
beta:
theta:
thetaS:
thetaB: Not used
kappa_s:
kappa_sH:
gamma:
: Boolean
kappa_T:
kappa_TH:
nu:
nu_H:
tau_T:
z0T:
z0B:
CdT:
CdB:
CdW:
turbmodel: Boolean
dt:
Cmax:
nsteps:
ntout:
ntprog:
ntconserve:
nonhydrostatic: Boolean
cgsolver: No longer used
maxiters:
qmaxiters:
qprecond: 0,1, or 2
epsilon:
qepsilon:
resnorm: Boolean
relax: No longer used
amp
omega
flux
timescale
volcheck: Boolean
masscheck: Boolean
nonlinear: 0,1, or 2
newcells: Boolean
wetdry: Boolean
Coriolis_f:
sponge_distance:
sponge_decay:
readSalinity: Boolean
readTemperature: Boolean
Input/Output files
pslg: input
points: input/output
edges: input/output
cells: input/output
depth: input
celldata: input/output
edgedata: input/output
vertspace: input/output
topology: input/output
FreeSurfaceFile: output
HorizontalVelocityFile: output
VerticalVelocityFile: output
SalinityFile,BGSAlinityFile,TemperatureFile,
PressureFile,VerticalGridFile,EddyViscosityFile,
ScalarDiffusivityFile: outputs
ConserveFile: output
ProgressFile: output
StoreFile: output
StartFile: input
InitSalinityFile: input
InitTemperatureFile: input
Using the sunplot GUI
Starting up the GUI
Moving around in time
Displaying different vertical levels
Displaying different processors
Surface plots of data
Vector plots
Displaying the grid
Zooming in on data and obtaining profile plots
Changing the axes scaling
Changing the color axes
Quitting out of sunplot
Command line options
Bibliography
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2014-08-06