Comparison of dynamical cores for NWP models: Comparison of COSMO and Dune

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 453-472

  Brdar, Slavko ^a   Baldauf, Michael ^b   Dedner, Andreas ^c   Klöfkorn, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compressible flow; Density current; Discontinuous Galerkin; Euler; Finite differences; Inertia gravity; Navier Stokes

Indexed keywords

DENSITY CURRENTS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; EULER; FINITE DIFFERENCE; NAVIER STOKES;

BENCHMARKING; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; EULER EQUATIONS; GALERKIN METHODS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; DENSITY CURRENT; EULER FLOW; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INERTIA; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84878315382     PISSN: 09354964     EISSN: 14322250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-012-0264-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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