An algebraic grid generation technique for three-dimensional natural river reaches

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 475-485

  Sinha, Sanjiv K ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic grid; Alluvial rivers; Boundary fitted grid; Hyperbolic tangent; Non orthogonal grid; Stretching functions

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGEBRAIC GRID GENERATION; HYPERBOLIC TANGENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

RIVERS;

GRIDS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; RIVERS;

ALGEBRAIC GRID; MODELLING; RIVER FLOW;

USA, WASHINGTON, COLUMBIA RIVER;

EID: 0031164736     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199706)13:6<475::AID-CNM76>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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