Finite-volume transport on various cubed-sphere grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-78

  Putman, William M ^a   Lin, Shian Jiann ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Cubed sphere; Finite volume; Monotonicity; Transport schemes

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CONFORMAL MAPPING;

CORNER SINGULARITY; CUBED-SPHERE; ELLIPTIC SOLVER; FINITE-VOLUME; MONOTONICITY; NON-ORTHOGONAL; NON-ORTHOGONALITY; PERFORMANCE; TRANSPORT SCHEMES; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

SPHERES;

EID: 35348927504     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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