Accuracy and stability of the discretised isopycnal-mixing equation

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 81-88

  Mathieu, P P ^a   Deleersnijder, E ^a   Beckers, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computational stability and accuracy; Isopycnal diffusion; Ocean model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007395028     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(99)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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