Assessment of non-hydrostatic ocean models using laboratory scale problems

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 26, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 1433-1447

  Berntsen, Jarle ^a   Xing, Jiuxing ^b   Alendal, Guttorm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convergence; Gravity currents; Model assessment; Non hydrostatic; Ocean modelling; Solitary waves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROSTATICS; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 33746731137     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2006.02.014     Document Type: Article

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