An efficient physics-based preconditioner for the fully implicit solution of small-scale thermally driven atmospheric flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-44

  Reisner, Jon ^a   Wyszogrodzki, Andrzej ^a   Mousseau, Vincent ^a   Knoll, Dana ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Navier stokes equations; Nonlinear solver; Physics based preconditioning

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TIME MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; NON-LINEAR SOLVER; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PHYSICS-BASED; PHYSICS-BASED PRECONDITIONING; PRECONDITIONERS; SEMI-IMPLICIT; SMALL SCALE; TIME-SCALES;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 0038115253     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00198-0     Document Type: Article

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