Tracking accuracy of a semi-Lagrangian method for advection-dispersion modelling in rivers

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Neelz S ^a   Wallis, S G ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Method of characteristics; Numerical efficiency; Pollutant transport; Semi Lagrangian; Tracking errors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; UNSTEADY FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

EULERIAN NUMERICAL SCHEMES; NON-UNIFORM FLOW; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN METHOD; TRACKING ERROR;

RIVERS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RIVERS; UNSTEADY FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 33845650731     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1239     Document Type: Article

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