A Schwarz preconditioner for the cubed-sphere

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 442-453

  Thomas, Stephen J ^a   Dennis, John M ^a   Tufo, Henry M ^b   Fischer, Paul F ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubed sphere; Semi implicit; Shallow water equations; Spectral element

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TENSORS;

CUBED-SPHERE; SEMI-IMPLICIT; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL ELEMENTS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

EID: 2342459074     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827502409420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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