Comparison of free-surface and rigid-lid finite element models of barotropic instabilities

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 86-103

  White, Laurent ^a,b   Beckers, Jean Marie ^c   Deleersnijder, Eric ^a,b   Legat, Vincent ^a  

^a Catholic University of Louvain   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Barotropic instabilities; Finite element method; Free surface flow; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITIES; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METEOROLOGY; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SHEAR FLOW; VORTICITY; WATER;

EID: 33646873932     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-006-0059-0     Document Type: Article

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