Adaptive Atmospheric Modeling - Key Techniques in Grid Generation, Data Structures, and Numerical Operations with Applications

This is an overview of the development of adaptive techniques for atmospheric modeling. Written in an educational style, it functions as a starting point for readers interested in adaptive modeling, in atmospheric sciences and beyond. Coverage includes paradigms of adaptive techniques, such as error estimation and adaptation criteria. Mesh generation methods are presented for triangular/tetrahedral and quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes, with a special section on initial meshes for the sphere.

List of contents

Principles of Adaptive Atmospheric Modeling.- Grid Generation.- Data Structures for Computational Efficiency.- Issues in Parallelization of Irregularly Structured Problems.- Numerical Treatment of Differential Operators on Adaptive Grids.- Discretization of Conservation Laws.- Example Applications.- Conclusions.- Some Basic Mathematical Tools.- Metrics for Parallelizing Irregularly Structured Problems.- Rotating Shallow Water Equations in Spherical Geometries.

Summary

This is an overview of the development of adaptive techniques for atmospheric modeling. Written in an educational style, it functions as a starting point for readers interested in adaptive modeling, in atmospheric sciences and beyond. Coverage includes paradigms of adaptive techniques, such as error estimation and adaptation criteria. Mesh generation methods are presented for triangular/tetrahedral and quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes, with a special section on initial meshes for the sphere.

Product details

• Authors: Jörn Behrens
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2006
• EAN: 9783540333821
• ISBN: 978-3-540-33382-1
• No. of pages: 214
• Weight: 380 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 214 p. 74 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering; Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; C, Geophysics, Mathematics and Statistics, Earth Sciences, Computer mathematics, Computational Science and Engineering, Geophysics/Geodesy, Atmospheric Sciences, Atmospheric Science, Mathematica;data structures;geometry;modeling;simulation