Studies of barotropic flow over topography using a Galerkin Finite Element model

A finite element shallow-water model is tested with two types of surface topography. The model uses rectangular subdivisions in a vorticity-divergence formulation, and a semi-implicit time discretization. In the first experiment an east-west ridge or valley is placed in a channel with east-west peri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petroliagis, Thomas I.
Other Authors: Williams, Roger Terry
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23411