Effect of element distortion on the numerical dispersion of spectral element methods

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 937-958

  Oliveira, S P ^a   Seriani, G ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dispersion analysis; Slivering; Spectral element method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551566024     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.071109.080710a     Document Type: Article

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