Voronoi, delaunay, and block-structured mesh refinement for solution of the shallow-water equations on the sphere

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4208-4224

  Weller, Hilary ^a   Weller, Henry G ^b   Fournier, Aimé ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b OpenCFD Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; COARSE MESHES; DELAUNAY; FINITE-VOLUME; MASS FLUX; MESH REFINEMENT; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NONUNIFORM; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER; STRUCTURED MESH; UNIFORM MESH; VORONOI; WAVE DISPERSION; WEATHER AND CLIMATE FORECASTS;

COST REDUCTION; REFINING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SPHERES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74949124440     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2917.1     Document Type: Article

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