A compatible and conservative spectral element method on unstructured grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5879-5895

  Taylor, Mark A ^a   Fournier, Aimé ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modeling; Compatible; Conservation; Cubed sphere; Finite element; Local conservation; Mimetic; Shallow water equations; Spectral element; Sphere; Support operators; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPATIBLE; CUBED SPHERE; FINITE ELEMENT; LOCAL CONSERVATION; MIMETICS; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT; SUPPORT OPERATOR; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

SPHERES;

EID: 77953620703     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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