Uniform spherical grids via equal area projection from the cube to the sphere

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 236, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1033-1041

  Roşca, Daniela ^a   Plonka, Gerlind ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equal area projection; Hierarchical grid; Refinable grid; Uniform spherical grid

Indexed keywords

AREA PROJECTION; COORDINATE AXES; HIERARCHICAL GRID; REFINABLE GRID; SPHERICAL GRIDS; UNIFORM SPHERICAL GRID;

GEOMETRY;

SPHERES;

EID: 80955163818     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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