A study of the effects of grid non-orthogonality on the solution of shallow water equations in boundary-fitted coordinate systems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 299-320

  Sankaranarayanan, S ^a   Spaulding, Malcolm L ^b  

^a Applied Science Associates Inc   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DISPERSION (WAVES); ERRORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

ASPECT-RATIO; BOUNDARY-FITTED GRID; GRID RESOLUTION; GRIDPOINTS; NON-ORTHOGONALITY; RMS ERRORS; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; TRUNCATION ERRORS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 0037286530     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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