Capturing the bottom boundary layer in finite element ocean models

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-162

  Hanert, Emmanuel ^a   Deleersnijder, Eric ^b   Blaise, Sébastien ^b   Remacle, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bottom boundary layer; Enriched finite element methods

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LOGARITHMIC SHAPE FUNCTIONS; OCEAN MODELS; OCEANIC BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; VELOCITY FIELD;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 33947151691     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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