New method for calculating vorticity diagnostic#734
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| if self.space is None or not is_cg(self.space): | ||
| # Using DG, calculate u in HCurl space as intermediary | ||
| self.hcurl_intermediary = True | ||
| assert self.method != 'solve', ( |
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This assertion is causing test failures... I'm not quite sure what you intend here...
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Interesting... I wonder if that actually might explain a real problem with the vorticity diagnosics!
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This implements a new method for calculating vorticity diagnostics for shallow-water equations.
We currently solve a linear variational problem to evaluate the vorticity in H1 from the velocity in HDiv, which is equivalent to the "weak curl". I am wondering if this can give very noisy results on the cubed-sphere...
... so this PR implements a different method, which first projects the velocity into HCurl, and then interpolates the "strong curl" of that velocity into a DG space.