Comparing two topography-following primitive equation models for lake circulation

DOI10.1006/jcph.1999.6298zbMath0951.76065OpenAlexW1981882212MaRDI QIDQ1819046

L. Umlauf, Yongqi Wang, Kolumban Hutter

Publication date: 5 January 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1999.6298

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityconvergenceshallow water equationscirculationLake Ammerlimnologysemi-implicit modelstopography-following coordinatesvertical finite difference methodvertical spectral method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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