Spatial Discretization of the Shallow Water Equations in Spherical Geometry Using Osher's Scheme

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 542-565

  Lanser, D ^a   Blom, J G ^a   Verwer, J G ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric flow; Numerical solution of PDEs; Osher's scheme; Stereographic coordinates; SWEs in spherical geometry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; SPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; LATITUDE LONGITUDE GRID; NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PDE; OSHER SCHEME; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; STEREOGRAPHIC COORDINATE; SWE IN SPHERICAL GEOMETRY;

POLES;

EID: 0348193014     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6632     Document Type: Article

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