SYMPHONIE-NH is the non-hydrostatic ocean model following the Boussinesq hydrostatic SYMPHONIE-2010 model developed by the Sirocco system team (CNRS & Toulouse University). Both are using an Arakawa type finite difference method for the C grid. The R&D team generally gives priority to a physically based approach of modelling (global conservation of the mechanical energy, consistency of pressure and density, accuracy of the bottom pressure torque,...) that tends to favour low order and robust numerical schemes. The principal equations of the physical engine are detailed in Auclair et al (2011), Marsaleix et al ( 2006, 2008, 2009). Most of the physical and numerical options (Non-Hydrostatic, free surface, generalised coordinates combined to an ALE method,...) are particularly suitable for the coastal area.
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    Energy transfers in internal tide generation, propagation and dissipation in the deep ocean
    Floor J.W., Auclair F., Marsaleix P., 2011 Ocean Modelling

    The energy transfers associated with internal tide (IT) generation by a semi-diurnal surface tidal wave impinging on a supercritical meridionally uniform deep ocean ridge on the f-plane, and subsequent IT-propagation are analysed using the Boussinesq, free-surface, terrain-following ocean model Symphonie. The energy diagnostics are explicitly based on the numerical formulation of the governing equations, permitting a globally conservative, high-precision analysis of all physical and numerical/artificial energy transfers in a sub-domain with open lateral boundaries. The net primary energy balances are quantified using a moving average of length two tidal periods in a simplified control simulation using a single time-step, minimal diffusion, and a no-slip sea floor. This provides the basis for analysis of enhanced vertical and horizontal diffusion and a free-slip bottom boundary condition. After a four tidal period spin-up, the tidally averaged (net) primary energy balance in the generation region, extending ±20 km from the ridge crest, shows that the surface tidal wave loses approximately C = 720 W/m or 0.3% of the mean surface tidal energy flux (2.506 × 105 W/m) in traversing the ridge. This corresponds mainly to the barotropic-to-baroclinic energy conversion due to stratified flow interaction with sloping topography. Combined with a normalised net advective flux of baroclinic potential energy of 0.9 × C this causes a net local baroclinic potential energy gain of 0.72 × C and a conversion into baroclinic kinetic energy through the baroclinic buoyancy term of 1.18 × C. Tidally averaged, about 1.14 × C is radiated into the abyssal ocean through the total baroclinic flux of internal pressure associated with the IT- and background density field. This total baroclinic pressure flux is therefore not only determined by the classic linear surface-to-internal tide conversion, but also by the net advection of baroclinic (background) potential energy, indicating the importance of local processes other than linear IT-motion. In the propagation region (PR), integrated over the areas between 20 and 40 km from the ridge crest, the barotropic and baroclinic tide are decoupled. The net incoming total baroclinic pressure flux is balanced by local potential energy gain and outward baroclinic flux of potential energy associated with the total baroclinic density. The primary net energy balances are robust to changes in the vertical diffusion coefficient, whereas relatively weak horizontal diffusion significantly reduces the outward IT energy flux. Diapycnal mixing due to vertical diffusion causes an available potential energy loss of about 1% of the total domain-averaged potential energy gain, which matches to within 0.5%, for km linearly distributed grid-levels and constant background density ?0, vertical diffusivity (KV) and buoyancy frequency (N).
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