Upwinded finite difference schemes for dense snow avalanche modeling

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 799-821

  Sartoris, G ^a,b,d   Bartelt, P ^c  

^a Numerical Modeling GmbH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^d ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Finite difference; Hyperbolic equations; Snow avalanche; Upwind

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY;

DISCRETIZATION; EULER EQUATION; HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS; NONCONSERVATIVE VARIABLES;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

AVALANCHE; DENSE PHASE FLOW; FINITE DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUE; SNOW;

AVALANCHE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SNOW;

EID: 0034656139     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(20000415)32:7<799::AID-FLD989>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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