Monotonic limiters for a second-order finite-volume advection scheme using icosahedral-hexagonal meshes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4523-4527

  Mittal, Rashmi ^a   Skamarock, William C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Grid systems; Model evaluation performance; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC VORTICES; FINITE-VOLUME; GRID SYSTEMS; HEXAGONAL GRID; HEXAGONAL MESHES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; NUMERICAL SCHEME; SECOND ORDERS; SLOTTED CYLINDERS; SOLID-BODY ROTATION; STABILITY CONDITION; TIME STEP;

SPHERES;

ADVECTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 78651104697     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3503.1     Document Type: Article

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