Inspection of hexagonal and triangular C-grid discretizations of the shallow water equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2706-2721

  Gassmann, Almut ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

C grid; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

C-GRID; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COORDINATE LINES; GRID DISCRETIZATION; HELMHOLTZ DECOMPOSITION; HEXAGONAL MESHES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; TRIANGULAR MESHES; TRIVARIATE; VECTOR COMPONENTS;

VECTORS;

EID: 79951513729     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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