CORIE - SELFE

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Concept

SELFE is a new unstructured-grid model designed for the effective simulation of 3D baroclinic circulation across river-to-ocean scales. It uses a semi-implicit finite-element Eulerian-Lagrangian algorithm to solve the shallow water equations, written to realistically address a wide range of physical processes and of atmospheric, ocean and river forcings. The numerical algorithm is high-order, and stable and computationally efficient (but slightly more expensive than ELCIRC). Although not guarenteed in the numerical scheme, the volume conservation is generally good. It also naturally incorporates wetting and drying of tidal flats. While originally developed to meet specific modeling challenges for the Columbia River, SELFE has been extensively tested against standard ocean/coastal benchmarks and applied to a number of bays/estuaries around the world.

References

Several papers describing SELFE and its early applications are currently submitted or in preparation. References or links to electronic versions of these papers will be available here, as papers get accepted.

Zhang, Y.-L. and Baptista, A.M. 2008 "SELFE: A semi-implicit Eulerian-Lagrangian finite-element model for cross-scale ocean circulation", Ocean Modelling, 21(3-4), 71-96. pdf

News

Parallel SELFE with MPI protocol is now available!
Third ELCIRC/SELFE users group meeting took place on Nov. 04, 2007 at Newport, RI (ECM10 site).
Second ELCIRC/SELFE users group meeting took place on Nov. 2-3, 2005 at Charleston, SC.
First ELCIRC users group meeting took place on June 28-29 2004.

SELFE users mailing list

To communicate with other users and support team, first you need to subscribe to the mailing list. You can do so by e-mailing to Majordomo@ccalmr.ogi.edu, with a simple message in the body of the text:

subscribe elcirc

and then follow instructions from there on. Note that otherwise your message would be treated as spam.

Getting Help

We maintain a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list, which is the first line of help available to users.

The entire SELFE users community can be contacted through selfe@ccalmr.ogi.edu. Please note that we as core development and support team have only limited resources to support users, and we cannot commit to addressing all questions or requests.

Getting Started

We recommend that you follow the steps outlined below:

Download and compile the source code and companion software. Recommended companion software (grid generation, visualization) should maximize data exchange capability - but other packages may be used with appropriate format conversions. SELFE has been run on a limited number of software and hardware environments. Report compilation problems not previously reported in the FAQ broadly to selfe@ccalmr.ogi.edu, as the SELFE core development team may not always be your best resource.
Run one or more of the reference benchmarks for which input files are available, and visualize outputs. This will particularly test your software installation, and the compatibility between SELFE and your visualization software. Report problems not previously reported in the FAQ to selfe@ccalmr.ogi.edu, as appropriate.
For one or more benchmarks, create a new horizontal grid and adjust the input files accordingly. This will test compatibility between SELFE and your grid generation software. Report problems not previously reported in the FAQ to selfe@ccalmr.ogi.edu, as appropriate.
Set up your own application, following the user manual to prepare input files. Report problems not previously reported in the FAQ to selfe@ccalmr.ogi.edu, as appropriate.

Downloading software

We recommend that you download both SELFE and compatible pre- and post-processor software. Please read FAQ for setting up a SELFE run, before deciding the full software set that you need to download. The following software is available:

SELFE Description: 3D baroclinic circulation model
Most recent serial version: v1.5k2
Date of release: July 2007
Source code
User manual
Version history: 1.4a, 1.3n2
Code to read output binary files (included in the package)
Drogues (particle tracking code) (included in the package)
Matlab scripts for reading outputs
Parallel SELFE with MPI protocol