A compatible and conservative spectral element method on unstructured grids

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.008zbMath1425.76177MaRDI QIDQ995209

Mark A. Taylor, Aimé Fournier

Publication date: 13 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.008

zbMATH Keywords

finite element; sphere; unstructured grids; shallow-water equations; atmospheric modeling; conservation; local conservation; compatible; spectral element; cubed sphere; mimetic; support operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

76M22: Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics

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Uses Software

• chammp
• GASpAR

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