Baroclinic stability for a family of two-level, semi-implicit numerical methods for the 3D shallow water equations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237-268

  Rueda, Francisco J ^a   Sanmiguel Rojas, Enrique ^b   Hodges, Ben R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

3D shallow water; Baroclinic terms; Stability analysis; Two level semi implicit methods

Indexed keywords

EULER EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BAROCLINIC FLOW; BAROTROPIC FLOW; INTEGRATED CONTINUITY EQUATION; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EULER EQUATIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 34248589449     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1391     Document Type: Article

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