Spurious inertial oscillations in shallow-water models

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 7959-7987

  Le Roux, Daniel Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Geophysical fluid dynamics; Mixed finite elements; Spurious inertial modes

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS;

CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; MIXED FINITE ELEMENTS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; ROSSBY WAVE; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SPURIOUS INERTIAL MODE; SPURIOUS SOLUTIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84866320168     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.04.052     Document Type: Article

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