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A Semi-Implicit, Three-Dimensional Model for Estuarine ... - USGS

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AMPLITUDE ERROR, IN PERCENT ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR, IN PERCENT<br />

20<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

-5<br />

20<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

Leapfrog<br />

Leapfrog-trapezoidal, 1 iteration<br />

Leapfrog-trapezoidal, 4 iterations<br />

-5<br />

0 10<br />

20 30 40<br />

50 60<br />

Δt, IN MINUTES<br />

Figure 5.20. Solutions using the three-level semi-implicit scheme <strong>for</strong> the tidal test problem.<br />

All simulations used space step Δx = 6,000 feet. The solutions with the leapfrog scheme and<br />

the leapfrog-trapezoidal scheme (1 iteration) used smoothing (β = 0.05) <strong>for</strong> time step<br />

Δt ≥ 10 minutes.<br />

5. Numerical Experiments 125

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