Accuracy analysis of mimetic finite volume operators on geodesic grids and a consistent alternative

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.12.058zbMath1349.76376OpenAlexW2293184314MaRDI QIDQ2374998

Pedro S. Peixoto

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.12.058

zbMATH Keywords

finite volumeshallow water modelmimetic discretizationspherical Voronoi gridstaggered C grid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08)

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Local time stepping for the shallow water equations in MPAS ⋮ Conservative numerical schemes with optimal dispersive wave relations. II: Numerical evaluations ⋮ A quasi-Hamiltonian discretization of the thermal shallow water equations ⋮ Formulation of an unstructured grid model for global Ocean dynamics ⋮ Parallel exponential time differencing methods for geophysical flow simulations ⋮ Generalised primal-dual grids for unstructured co-volume schemes ⋮ A conservative discretization of the shallow-water equations on triangular grids ⋮ Higher-order finite volume differential operators with selective upwinding on the icosahedral spherical grid ⋮ A consistent mass-conserving C-staggered method for shallow water equations on global reduced grids

Uses Software

• chammp
• DYNAMICO
• MPAS-Ocean

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