Nomenclature & Glossary

$\rho$	water density = 1000 kg/m3
$\eta$	water height above mean level
$\overline{H}$	mean level
Hu	depth below mean level
H	distance from sea bottom to water surface
$\overline{u}, \overline{v}$	depth averaged velocities
g	gravity acceleration
$\Omega$	coefficient giving place to Coriolis force
$\omega$	earth's angular velocity, [rad/s]
$\phi$	latitude, $35^\circ$
Ch	bottom stress Chezy coefficient
Z0	bottom roughness, 0.001 m
$\tau _{sx},\tau _{sy}$	wind stress components at sea surface
$\varepsilon$	coefficient for turbulent viscosity
Wx, Wy	wind velocity components measured 10 meters above
	sea level
$\rho_a$	air density = 1 kg/m3
CD	sea surface stress coefficient
$\Delta t$	time step
$\Delta x$	grid size
$\overrightarrow{c} =(c^x,c^y)$	wave celerity
th5	mesh of 5.000 cells
th20	mesh of 20.000 cells
th80	mesh of 80.000 cells
$\alpha$	latency time
$\beta$	bandwidth throughput
Rc	communication time rate between the use of mesh
	th20 to mesh th5
Sg	numerical solution using grid g
Eg	pointwise error estimate
L	exact solution
p	accuracy order
np	Number of processes into which the parallel program is
	distributed.
Tcompute	computation time for 1 time step
Tcommunic	communication time for 1 time step
PVM	Parallel Virtual Machine
DD	Domain Decomposition.
ADI	Alternate Directions Implicit.
SMP	Symmetric Multi-Processing.
MFLOPS	Millions of floating point operations by second.
CFL	Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy .
CFD	Computational Fluid Dynamics