A robust unstructured grid discretization for 3-dimensional hydrostatic flows in spherical geometry: A new numerical structure for ocean general circulation modeling

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2005.08.031zbMath1136.86303MaRDI QIDQ2489710

G. R. Stuhne, W. R. Peltier

Publication date: 28 April 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2005.08.031

zbMATH Keywords

Numerical methods; Unstructured grids; Spherical geometry; Ocean modeling; Hydrostatic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

86-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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