The characteristic-Galerkin method for advection-dominated problems - An assessment

DOI10.1016/0045-7825(87)90100-9zbMath0611.76095MaRDI QIDQ1087433

O. C. Zienkiewicz, Jaime Peraire, Joseph Hun-Wei Lee

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0045-7825(87)90100-9

zbMATH Keywords

spatial discretization; oscillating flow; accuracy analysis; rectangular channel; linear basis functions; pure advection; advection-dominated problems; bottom frictional dissipation; characteristic-based finite difference scheme; characteristic-based Galerkin method; classical Lax-Wendroff method; coastal hydrodynamic applications; dispersion of a continuous source; explicit time-stepping scheme; Hermitian cubic interpolating polynomials; implicit Crank-Nicolson scheme; long-wave propagation; numerical propagation characteristics; one-dimensional convective diffusion equation; steep Gaussian profile

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76R50: Diffusion

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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