On some spurious mode issues in shallow-water models using a linear algebra approach

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 83-94

  Le Roux, D Y ^a   Sene A ^b   Rostand, V ^a   Hanert, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GASTON BERGER   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Finite difference method; Finite element method; Ocean modelling; Shallow water equations; Spurious computational modes

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAVITY WAVES; LINEAR ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VELOCITY;

CORIOLIS MODE; MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; SURFACE ELEVATION; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 14744282253     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.07.008     Document Type: Article

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