Gravitational mode calculation of basins discretized by orthogonal curvilinear grids

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 833-853

  Beltrami, Gian Mario ^a   Bargagli, Andrea ^b   Briganti, Riccardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adiabatic boundary conditions; Gravitational modes; Orthogonal curvilinear coordinates; Shallow water equations; Staggered grids

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

CURVILINEAR GRIDS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; EIGENVALUE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 0037408723     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(02)00079-3     Document Type: Article

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