Higher-order compatible finite element schemes for the nonlinear rotating shallow water equations on the sphere

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2018.08.027zbMath1416.86014arXiv1707.00855OpenAlexW2728482391MaRDI QIDQ2002318

T. H. Gibson, Jemma Shipton, Colin John Cotter

Publication date: 11 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00855

zbMATH Keywords

shallow water equationspotential vorticitynumerical weather predictioncompatible finite elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08)

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Uses Software

• PETSc
• mpi4py
• UFL
• chammp
• Firedrake
• TSFC
• COFFEE
• petsc4py

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