Comparison of finite difference- And pseudospectral methods for convective flow over a sphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3245-3248

  Fornberg, Bengt ^a   Merrill, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Applied Mathematics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEAT CONVECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPHERES;

CONVECTIVE FLOW; COST EFFECTIVE; FOURIER; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SPHERICAL SHELL;

SPHERES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD;

CONVECTIVE FLOW; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD; SPHERE;

EID: 0031393806     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03272     Document Type: Article

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