IMUM CONFERENCE 2023

About the Workshop

The 18th International Workshop on Multi-scale Unstructured mesh numerical Modeling (IMUM) for coastal, shelf, and global ocean dynamics will be held in Venice, Italy, from November 6th to 9th, 2023. The workshop is organised by the Institute for Marine Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR).

The initial IMUM workshop was convened in Louvain-la-Neuve in 2002, and in the years since, these annual workshops have become a highly respected platform for sharing and advancing knowledge about unstructured-mesh modelling of the ocean, spanning various scales and interactions.  The workshops are characterised by a relaxed and interactive atmosphere and strive to strike a balance between presentations and brainstorming about the latest advancements, benchmarking, and application of models.  Unfortunately, the IMUM workshops were suspended during the pandemic, but now there is a unique opportunity to meet again in the city of Venice.

Topics 

• Finite-volume, finite-element, spectral methods, high-order schemes;

• Time discretization: split-explicit, semi-implicit, IMEX schemes;

• Stability/accuracy analyses;

• Vertical discretization and vertical coordinates;

• Mesh generation and adaptive meshes;

• Parallel methods and high-performance computing;

• Multiphysics applications including coupling to atmospheric, biogeochemical, wave, or sediment transport models;

• Data assimilation;

• Connecting the coastal to the global ocean;

• Model applications.

Scientific Committee

Emmanuel Hanert, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)

Mark R. Petersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)

Georg Umgiesser, CNR-ISMAR (Italy)

Local Organisation

Luca Arpaia, CNR-ISMAR (Italy), luca.arpaia@ve.ismar.cnr.it

Marco Bajo, CNR-ISMAR (Italy), marco.bajo@ve.ismar.cnr.it

Christian Ferrarin, CNR-ISMAR (Italy) c.ferrarin@ismar.cnr.it