Double Fourier series on a sphere: Applications to elliptic and vorticity equations

DOI10.1006/jcph.1999.6385zbMath0961.76062OpenAlexW2024531971MaRDI QIDQ1971403

Hyeong-Bin Cheong

Publication date: 5 June 2001

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1999.6385

zbMATH Keywords

double Fourier seriesorthogonal basis functionsPoisson equationvorticity equationsine seriesrotating Rossby-Haurwitz wavesspherical harmonics filters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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Uses Software

• Mathematica
• chammp

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