The CASL algorithm for quasi-geostrophic flow in a cylinder

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 232-251

  Macaskill, C ^a   Padden, W E P ^a   Dritschel, D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CASL; Contour dynamics; Rotating stratified turbulence; Vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ASTROPHYSICS; FLOW FIELDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

CONTOUR DYNAMICS; CONTOUR-ADVECTIVE SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; CYLINDRICAL DOMAIN; EULERIAN; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN ALGORITHM; ROTATING STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0038008382     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00165-7     Document Type: Article

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