Stability and consistency of nonhydrostatic free-surface models using the semi-implicit θ-method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 550-582

  Vitousek, Sean ^a   Fringer, Oliver B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Artificial damping; Free surface; Nonhydrostatic pressure; Ocean modeling; Stability; Theta method

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTIFICIAL DAMPING; FREE SURFACES; NON-HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OCEAN MODELING; THETA-METHOD;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS;

DAMPING;

EID: 84877610781     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.3755     Document Type: Article

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