A fully implicit, mass-conserving, semi-Lagrangian scheme for the f-plane shallow-water equations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1047-1059

  Thuburn, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approximate Jacobian; Helmholtz problem; Implicit; Newton method; Nonlinear solver; SLICE

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

NONLINEAR SOLVER; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

EID: 40749106127     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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