A discontinuous finite element baroclinic marine model on unstructured prismatic meshes Part I: Space discretization

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1371-1393

  Blaise, Sébastien ^a,b,c   Comblen, Richard ^a,b   Legat, Vincent ^a,b   Remacle, Jean François ^a,b   Deleersnijder, Eric ^a,b   Lambrechts, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Catholic University of Louvain   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DISCONTINUOUS FINITE ELEMENT; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HIGHER ORDER; INTERIOR PENALTY METHOD; INTERNAL WAVES; REGION OF INTEREST; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SPACE DISCRETIZATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELEMENTS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; WAVE STRUCTURES;

GALERKIN METHODS; IODINE; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HYDROSTATICS; INTERNAL WAVE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAFLOOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 83655172753     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0358-3     Document Type: Article

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