Application of the multidimensional positive definite advection transport algorithm (MPDATA) to environmental modelling on adaptive unstructured grids

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1247-1268

  Ahmad, Nash'at N ^a   Bacon, David P ^a   Hall, Mary S ^a   Sarma, Ananthakrishna ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric simulation; Geophysical fluid dynamics; MPDATA; Numerical methods; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GRID ADAPTIVITY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL POSITIVE DEFINITE ADVECTION TRANSPORT ALGORITHM;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33645521949     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1113     Document Type: Article

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