Solving the Poisson equation on small aspect ratio domains using unstructured meshes

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-263

  Kramer, S C ^a   Cotter, C J ^a   Pain, C C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Multigrid; Small aspect ratio; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRIDS; CONDITION NUMBERS; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT DISCRETISATIONS; ILL-CONDITIONING; ITERATIVE SOLVERS; MATRIX; MULTI-GRID; MULTIGRID PRECONDITIONING; NUMERICAL TESTS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN MODELLING; POISSON PROBLEM; PRECONDITIONERS; SMALL ASPECT RATIO; TOP SURFACE; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ALGEBRA; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MESH GENERATION; NUMBER THEORY; POISSON EQUATION;

ASPECT RATIO;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROSTATICS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SMOOTHING;

EID: 77956877337     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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