New Icosahedral Grid-Point Discretizations of the Shallow Water Equations on the Sphere

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-58

  Stuhne, G R ^a   Peltier, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Multigrid methods; Refined icosahedral mesh; Shallow water equations; Spherical domain; Vortex erosion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW OF WATER; MECHANICAL WAVES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPHERES; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROTROPIC; DISCRETIZATIONS; GRID POINTS; MULTIGRID METHODS; REFINED ICOSAHEDRAL MESH; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW WATERS; SPECTRAL TRANSFORM; SPHERICAL DOMAIN; VORTEX EROSION;

EROSION;

EID: 0002488276     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6119     Document Type: Article

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