Research Article

A Study of the Transport of Marine Pollutants Using Adjoint Method of Data Assimilation with Method of Characteristics

Table 4

The results of the adjoint model using CFD and CDS.

MethodTime
step
size (h)
Relative
magnitude of
the cost function
Mean absolute error of observation points
Before
assimilation
(mg/L)
After
assimilation
(mg/L)
Rate of
decline

CFD486.0650×10−30.241210.0172092.87%
CDS241.3303×10−20.284060.0295989.58%