A nodal triangle-based spectral element method for the shallow water equations on the sphere

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2005.01.004zbMath1177.86002OpenAlexW1993184792MaRDI QIDQ556326

Francis X. Giraldo, Timothy Warburton

Publication date: 13 June 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2005.01.004

zbMATH Keywords

Rossby-Haurwitz waveConvergence rate of the triangle-based SE methodGalewsky et al. zonal dynamicshigh-order Lagrange polynomialsnodal triangle-based spectral element methodPassive advection of a cosine waveshallow water equations on the sphereSteady-state nonlinear zonal geostrophic flowSteady-state nonlinear zonal geostrophic flow with compact supportTriangle-based icosahedral gridstriangulations based on latitude-longitudetriangulations based on the platonic solidsZonal flow over an isolated mountain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) 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) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08)

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Uses Software

• STRIPACK
• chammp
• AMATOS

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