Efficient scheme for the shallow water equations on unstructured grids with application to the Continental Shelf

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1175-1188

  Kernkamp, Herman W J ^a   Van Dam, Arthur ^a   Stelling, Guus S ^a,b   De Goede, Erik D ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational efficiency; Continental Shelf; Finite volume; Hydrodynamics; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DELFT3D; FINITE VOLUME; MODEL NETWORKS; NETHERLANDS; NUMBER OF GRIDS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; OVERLAND FLOW; SEWER SYSTEM; SHALLOW SEA; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER FLOW; SHELF BREAK; TEST CASE; TIDAL PROPAGATION; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TIDAL CYCLE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 81255137954     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0423-6     Document Type: Article

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