A prolate-element method for nonlinear PDEs on the sphere (Q639411)
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A prolate-element method for nonlinear PDEs on the sphere (English)
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20 September 2011
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A \(p\)-type spectral-element method using prolate spheroidal wave functions as basis functions, termed as the prolate-element method, is developed for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on the sphere. The gridding on the sphere is based on a projection of prolate-Gauss-Lobatto points by using the cube-sphere transform, which is free of singularity and leads to quasi-uniform grids. Various numerical results demonstrate that the proposed prolate-element method enjoys some remarkable advantages over the polynomial-based element method: (i) it can significantly relax the time step size constraint of an explicit time-marching scheme, and (ii) it can increase the accuracy and enhance the resolution.
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prolate-Gauss-Lobatto point
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cube-sphere transform
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spectral-element method
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quasi-uniform grid
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