bug in Smagorinsky formulation at 4.0

[davestorkey]

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Context

The bilaplacian Smagorinsky formulation at 4.0 gives much smaller viscosity values than the bilaplacian Smagorinsky formulation at 3.6 for same "C" value and the same velocity field in tests with ORCA025 and GYRE. There is about an order of magnitude difference.

Analysis

The main issue appears to be a missing factor of 2 in the definition of esqt and esqf in ldf_dyn_init:

      DO jj = 1, jpj             ! Set local gridscale values
        DO ji = 1, jpi
           esqt(ji,jj) = ( e1e2t(ji,jj) / ( e1t(ji,jj) + e2t(ji,jj) ) )**2 
           esqf(ji,jj) = ( e1e2f(ji,jj) / ( e1f(ji,jj) + e2f(ji,jj) ) )**2      
        END DO
      END DO

instead should be:

      DO jj = 1, jpj             ! Set local gridscale values
        DO ji = 1, jpi
           esqt(ji,jj) = ( 2._wp * e1e2t(ji,jj) / ( e1t(ji,jj) + e2t(ji,jj) ) )**2 
           esqf(ji,jj) = ( 2._wp * e1e2f(ji,jj) / ( e1f(ji,jj) + e2f(ji,jj) ) )**2      
        END DO
      END DO

Then for the special case e1t = e2t = dx we have esqt = dx^2 and esqt corresponds to Delta^2 in the Griffies and Hallberg (2000) MWR paper. This length scale is raised to the power of 4 in the definition of the bilaplacian viscosity, so a missing factor of 2 would give a bilaplacian viscosity 16x smaller at 4.0 than at 3.6 which is roughly what I see in my tests.

Fix

I have tested this change and the values at 3.6 and 4.0 are now the same order of magnitude but it seems that the 4.0 values are still systematically a bit smaller than the 3.6 values.

[davestorkey]

In 11651:

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[smasson]

Should we report this bugfix in the trunk (alias NEMO 4.0.1)?
It looks like a good and strait forward solution, no?

[davestorkey]

In 11653:

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[smasson]

Thank you!
Last on before 4.0.1? :-)

[davestorkey]

The system is too clever (or not clever enough). It closed the ticket when I only committed the fix to a branch. Fix now in trunk @ 11653.