Some considerations for high-order 'incremental remap'-based transport schemes: Edges, reconstructions, and area integration

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1131-1151

  Ullrich, Paul Aaron ^a   Lauritzen, Peter Hjort ^b   Jablonowski, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservative transport; Cubed sphere; Finite volume; Flux form semi Lagrangian; Incremental remap; Multi tracer transport

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SPHERES; WATER TREATMENT;

CONSERVATIVE TRANSPORT; GAUSSIAN QUADRATURES; HIGH-ORDER ACCURACY; INCREMENTAL REMAP; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; THIRD ORDER ACCURACY; TRACER TRANSPORT;

TRACERS;

EID: 84874019487     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.3703     Document Type: Article

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