Effect of initial perturbations on the simulation capability of numerical models

Science China Press., Co. Ltd. - Tập 58 - Trang 1316-1320 - 2012
WanTao Lin1, LiFei Wu2, YiHua Lin1, Feng Xue1
1State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
2Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

The effect of an initial perturbation on simulation is studied in a series of numerical experiments using a one-dimensional nonlinear advection equation model. It is shown that the capability of the model tends to decline with an increase in initial perturbation. The error in the initial perturbation grows in a nonlinear manner, indicating that the simulating results can be improved only to a limited degree by increasing the accuracy of the initial data.

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