Turbulent air flow around RV Tangaroa

Author: Stéphane Popinet
Command: gerris3D tangaroa.gfs | gfsview3D sections.gfv | ppm2mpeg -s 640x480 > sections.mpg
Version: 0.9.2
Required files: tangaroa.gfs (view) (download)
tangaroa.gts sections.gfv
Running time: 7 hours

An example of the simulations described in Popinet, Smith and Stevens (2004), Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21.

Figure 14: MPEG movie of the adaptive mesh. The two cross-sections are coloured according to the norm of the velocity vector.