A low communication and large time step explicit finite-volume solver for non-hydrostatic atmospheric dynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1567-1584

  Norman, Matthew R ^a   Nair, Ramachandran D ^b   Semazzi, Fredrick H M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Finite volume; Flux vector splitting; Fully discrete; Non hydrostatic; Riemann solver

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; HYDRAULICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CFL NUMBER; FINITE-VOLUME; FLUX VECTOR SPLITTING; FULLY DISCRETE; INTERPOLANTS; NON-HYDROSTATIC; RIEMANN SOLVER; TEST CASE; TIME STEP;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 78650562306     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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