Trajectory-tracking scheme in lagrangian form for solving linear advection problems: Interface spatial discretization

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 324-339

  Dong, Li ^a   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND WINDS; CONCAVE POLYGONS; DEFORMED INTERFACE; MASS CONSERVATION; REMAPPING ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; STANDARD TESTS; TRAJECTORY-TRACKING;

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; AIR MASS; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; TRACER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84874869651     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00058.1     Document Type: Article

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