A Finite Element Method for Fully Nonlinear Water Waves

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 544-568

  Cai, Xing ^a   Langtangen, Hans Petter ^a   Nielsen, Bjørn Fredrik ^a   Tveito, Aslak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

DYNAMIC WATERS; ELLIPTIC BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM; FULLY NONLINEAR; NONLINEAR WATER WAVES; POTENTIAL THEORY; REGRIDDING; STANDARD POTENTIAL; TIME STEP; WATER SURFACE; WATER VOLUMES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0004916524     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.9997     Document Type: Article

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