Atmospheric Transport Schemes: Desirable Properties and a Semi-Lagrangian View on Finite-Volume Discretizations

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue , 2011, Pages 185-250

  Lauritzen, Peter H ^a   Ullrich, Paul A ^b   Nair, Ramachandran D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; MASS CONTINUITY EQUATION; NON-TRADITIONAL; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; TRANSPORT SCHEMES;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 85017346181     PISSN: 14397358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11640-7_8     Document Type: Chapter

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