A mass, energy, vorticity, and potential enstrophy conserving lateral boundary scheme for the shallow water equations using piecewise linear boundary approximations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2751-2793

  Ketefian, G S ^a   Jacobson, M Z ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Conservation; Energy; Potential enstrophy; Shallow water equations; Shaved cell

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; STAIRS;

ACCURACY; ENERGY; ENSTROPHY; MASS ENERGY; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PIECEWISE-LINEAR; POTENTIAL ENSTROPHY; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHAVED CELL; STAIR-STEP;

VORTICITY;

EID: 79951770834     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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