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13. Unstructured Meshes in Large-Scale Ocean Modeling

Authors : Sergey Danilov, Jens Schröter

Published in: Handbook of Geomathematics

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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The current status of large-scale ocean modeling on unstructured meshes is discussed in the context of climate applications. Our review is based on FEOM, which is at present the only general circulation model on a triangular mesh with a proven record of global applications. Different setups are considered including some promising alternative finite-element and finite-volume configurations. The focus is on consistency and performance issues which are much easier to achieve with finite-volume methods. On the other hand, they sometimes suffer from numerical modes and require more research before they can be generally recommended for modeling of the general circulation.

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Title: Unstructured Meshes in Large-Scale Ocean Modeling
Authors: Sergey Danilov
Jens Schröter
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Handbook of Geomathematics
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-01545-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-01546-5

Copyright Year: 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01546-5_13

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