A compatible and conservative spectral element method on unstructured grids

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2010.04.008zbMath1425.76177OpenAlexW1974404496MaRDI QIDQ995209

Aimé Fournier, Mark A. Taylor

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 elementsphereunstructured gridsshallow-water equationsatmospheric modelingconservationlocal conservationcompatiblespectral elementcubed spheremimeticsupport operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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Uses Software

• chammp
• GASpAR

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