A fourth order numerical method for the primtive equations formulated in mean vorticity

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-55

  Liu, Jian Guo ^a   Wang, Cheng ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact scheme; Large scale oceanic circulation; Long stencil approximation; Mean vorticity; One sided extrapolation; The primitive equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049108396     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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