Fast Shallow-Water Equation Solvers in Latitude-Longitude Coordinates

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 432-444

  Spotz, William F ^a   Taylor, Mark A ^a   Swarztrauber, Paul N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FOURIER SERIES;

EQUATION SOLVERS; FOURIER FILTERS; HARMONIC FILTER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; SCALAR FUNCTION; SERIES APPROXIMATIONS; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPATIAL DERIVATIVES; VECTOR FUNCTIONS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 0000007535     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6026     Document Type: Article

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