Ocean modeling on unstructured meshes

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 195-210

  Danilov, S ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite volume and finite element methods; Large scale ocean circulation modeling; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF FREEDOM; LARGE-SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; MULTIRESOLUTION MESH; MULTIRESOLUTION MODEL; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; TRANSPORT SCHEMES; TRIANGULAR MESHES; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MESH GENERATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COASTAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 84881662063     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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