A finite element method for solving the shallow water equations on the sphere

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 12-23

  Comblen, Richard ^a   Legrand, Sébastien ^b   Deleersnijder, Eric ^a   Legat, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Curved manifolds; Finite element; Shallow water equations; Spherical geometry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; CURVED MANIFOLDS; CURVED SURFACES; DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; FINITE ELEMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATIONS; INHERENT FLEXIBILITIES; LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; LOCAL QUANTITIES; NEW APPROACHES; NODAL COORDINATES; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; PRIMITIVE VARIABLES; RATES OF CONVERGENCES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRY; STANDARD TESTS; THIN-LAYER FLOWS; TRIANGULAR MESHES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; VECTOR;

EID: 62849096630     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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