A unified approach to energy conservation and potential vorticity dynamics for arbitrarily-structured C-grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3065-3090

  Ringler, T D ^a   Thuburn, J ^b   Klemp, J B ^c   Skamarock, W C ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

C grid; Potential vorticity; Shallow water equations; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTICITY;

C-GRID; NON-LINEAR SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY DYNAMICS; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; THICKNESS EQUATIONS; UNIFIED APPROACH; VECTOR-INVARIANT FORM; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 77949326654     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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