Impact of mass lumping on gravity and Rossby waves in 2D finite-element shallow-water models

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 767-790

  Le Roux, Daniel Y ^a   Hanert, E ^b   Rostand, V ^a   Pouliot, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Gravity waves; Mass lumping; Rossby waves; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; DISPERSION RELATIONS; DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES; FINITE ELEMENTS; FINITE-ELEMENT; MASS LUMPING; MASS MATRICES; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVES; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; TEST PROBLEM;

GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; QUANTUM THEORY; WAVES;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

EID: 66149136924     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1837     Document Type: Article

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