Error analysis of a B-spline based finite-element method for modeling wind-driven ocean circulation

DOI10.1007/s10915-016-0201-1zbMath1398.76124MaRDI QIDQ334353

Wen Jiang, Eliot Fried, Tae-Yeon Kim, Nella Rotundo, Luca Heltai

Publication date: 1 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-016-0201-1

zbMATH Keywords

vorticity; stream function; optimal convergence; Nitsche's method; quasigeostrophic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65D07: Numerical computation using splines

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

65N15: Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

86-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics