Emulated digital CNN-UM implementation of a barotropic ocean model

The solution of partial differential equations (PDE) has long been one of the most important fields of mathematics, due to the frequent occurrence of spatio-temporal dynamics in many branches of physics, engineering and other sciences. One of the most exciting area is the simulation of compressible and incompressible fluids which appears in many important applications in aerodynamics, meteorology and oceanography. On the other hand the solution of these equations requires enormous computing power. In this paper a CNN-UM simulation of ocean currents is presented. Unfortunately the non-linearity of the governing equations does not make possible to utilize the huge computing power of the analog CNN-UM chips. To improve the performance of our solution an emulated digital CNN-UM is used where the cell model of the architecture is modified to handle the non-linearity of the model.