Extending Gal-Chen and Somerville terrain-following coordinate transformation on time-dependent curvilinear boundaries

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-20

  Wedi, Nils P ^a   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Boundary conditions; Free surface; Gal Chen and Somerville; Ocean; Time dependent coordinate transformation

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; CURVILINEAR BOUNDARIES; EXPLICIT FORMULA; FREE SURFACES; GAL-CHEN AND SOMERVILLE; OCEAN; TERRAIN FOLLOWING; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 0344550393     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2003.07.034     Document Type: Article

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