Lagrange-Galerkin Methods on Spherical Geodesic Grids: The Shallow Water Equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 336-368

  Giraldo, Francis X ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Icosahedral grid; Lagrange Galerkin; Runge Kutta; Shallow water equations; Spherical geometry; Unstructured grid

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SPHERES;

CARTESIAN SPACE; ICOSAHEDRAL GRID; LAGRANGE; LAGRANGE-GALERKIN; LINEAR TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS; RUNGE-KUTTUM; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPHERICAL GEODESIC GRID; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0001004448     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6469     Document Type: Article

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