WVThermalDamping

Thermal damping

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Declaration

WVBottomFriction < WVForcing

Overview

Applies thermal damping to the flow, i.e., \(\frac{dq}{dt} = \alpha \lambda^2 \psi\).

This is as defined in Scott and Dritschel, but it can be shown that it is basically just a vertical diffusivity.

Topics

• Other
  • WVThermalDamping initialize the WVNonlinearFlux nonlinear flux
  • alpha
  • alpha_scaled
  • classRequiredPropertyNames

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