Semi-implicit formulations of the navier-stokes equations: Application to nonhydrostatic atmospheric modeling

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3394-3425

  Giraldo, F X ^a   Restelli, M ^b   Lauter M ^c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compressible flow; Element based Galerkin methods; Euler; Implicit explicit; Lagrange; Legendre; Navier stokes; Nonhydrostatic; Spectral elements; Time integration

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VISCOUS FLOW;

ELEMENT-BASED; ELEMENT-BASED GALERKIN METHOD; EULER; IMPLICIT-EXPLICIT; LAGRANGE; LEGENDRE; NAVIER STOKES; NON-HYDROSTATIC; SPECTRAL ELEMENT; TIME-INTEGRATION;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79251483525     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090775889     Document Type: Article

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