Application of Double Fourier Series to the Shallow-Water Equations on a Sphere

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 261-287

  Cheong, Hyeong Bin ^a  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Double Fourier series; Shallow water equations; Spectral filter; Spectral method; Weather prediction

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FOURIER SERIES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DOUBLE FOURIER SERIES; ORTHOGONAL BASIS FUNCTION; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL FILTERS; SPECTRAL METHODS; SPECTRAL TRANSFORM METHOD; SPHERICAL HARMONIC MODELS; STANDARD TESTS; TEST SETS; WEATHER PREDICTION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 0001021255     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6615     Document Type: Article

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