Conservation of Mass and Energy for the Moist Atmospheric Primitive Equations on Unstructured Grids

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue , 2011, Pages 357-380

  Taylor, Mark A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CAMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CONSERVATION OF MASS; DYNAMICAL EQUATION; HIGH-ORDER METHODS; HYDROSTATIC EQUATIONS; NON-ADIABATIC PROCESS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; PRIMITIVE VARIABLES;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 85013910821     PISSN: 14397358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11640-7_12     Document Type: Chapter

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