A fourth-order-centered finite-volume scheme for regular hexagonal grids

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4030-4037

  Miura, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS; INTERPOLATION; VECTORS;

FLUX-DIVERGENCE OPERATOR; FOURTH-ORDER-CENTERED OPERATORS; SECOND-ORDER FLUX-DIVERGENCE OPERATOR;

WIND;

ADVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; VECTOR;

EID: 38049183144     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2075.1     Document Type: Article

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