A quantitative analysis of numerical diffusion introduced by advection algorithms in air quality models

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1933-1940

  Odman, Mehmet Talat ^a  

^a MCNC   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection schemes; Diffusion error; Fourier method; Horizontal diffusion; Modified equation method; Subgrid scale diffusion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION IN GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FOURIER METHOD; MODIFIED EQUATION METHOD; SUBGRID SCALE DIFFUSION;

AIR QUALITY;

ADVECTION; AIR QUALITY; DIFFUSION ERROR; PLUME DISPERSION;

EID: 0030616183     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(96)00354-8     Document Type: Article

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