A fully coupled 3D wave-current interaction model on unstructured grids

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Roland, Aron ^a   Zhang, Yinglong J ^b   Wang, Harry V ^c   Meng, Yanqiu ^c   Teng, Yi Cheng ^c   Maderich, Vladimir ^d   Brovchenko, Igor ^d   Dutour Sikiric, Mathieu ^e   Zanke, Ulrich ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^d Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Nasu   (Ukraine)

^e RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3RD GENERATION; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; COUPLED MODELS; CURRENT MODELS; DIFFERENT SCALE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD DATA; FULLY-COUPLED; HIGH RESOLUTION; MODELING SYSTEMS; MULTISCALES; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; SOURCE CODES; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS; STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS; SUB-DOMAINS; TEST CASE; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BENCHMARKING; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE MODELING; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

EID: 84867271397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007952     Document Type: Article

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