A discontinuous Galerkin method for the shallow water equations in spherical triangular coordinates

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 10226-10242

  Läuter, Matthias ^a   Giraldo, Francis X ^b   Handorf, Dörthe ^a   Dethloff, Klaus ^a  

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

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Finite volumes; Shallow water equations; Spherical geometry; Surface; Triangular grid

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPHERES;

DISCONTINOUS GALERKIN METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE-VOLUME; GLOBAL MODELS; RUNGE-KUTTA DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; STANDARD TESTS; THIRD ORDER; TRIANGULAR GRID;

RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

EID: 85028817675     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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