A spectral finite volume transport scheme on the cubed-sphere

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1021-1032

  Cheruvu, Vani ^a   Nair, Ramachandran D ^b   Tufo, Henry M ^a,b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservative transport equation; Cubed sphere; High order reconstruction; Spectral finite volume

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ADVECTIVE PROCESSES; ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; DEFORMATIONAL FLOW; RECONSTRUCTION MATRIX;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 34250831446     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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