On numerical solution of the shallow water equations with chemical reactions on icosahedral geodesic grid

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1956-1991

  Pudykiewicz, Janusz A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric chemistry; Atmospheric transport; Finite volume method; Icosahedral grid; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEODESY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COUPLED SYSTEMS; FINITE VOLUME TECHNIQUE; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; GEODESIC GRID; ICOSAHEDRAL GRID; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; REACTION ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; ROSSBY WAVE; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

EID: 78651429874     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.045     Document Type: Article

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