Anisotropic mesh adaptivity for multi-scale ocean modelling

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1907, 2009, Pages 4591-4611

  Piggott, M D ^a   Farrell, P E ^a   Wilson, C R ^a   Gorman, G J ^a   Pain, C C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Gyre; Mesh adaptivity; Ocean; Western boundary current

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; MESH GENERATION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADAPTIVE RESOLUTION; ANISOTROPIC MESHES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DOMAIN REPRESENTATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; MESH ADAPTIVITY; MULTISCALES; NONUNIFORM; OCEAN MODELLING; SOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURED MESH; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 73249146449     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0155     Document Type: Article

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