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Adaptive mesh refinement for three‐dimensional off‐line tracer advection over the sphere
Author(s) -
Hubbard M. E.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.320
Subject(s) - advection , cartesian coordinate system , finite volume method , tracer , scheme (mathematics) , simple (philosophy) , algorithm , adaptive mesh refinement , mathematics , computer science , geometry , computational science , mathematical analysis , mechanics , physics , philosophy , epistemology , nuclear physics , thermodynamics
Abstract This paper describes briefly the application of a WAF‐type finite volume scheme and a standard Cartesian adaptive mesh refinement algorithm to three‐dimensional tracer advection over the sphere. Some preliminary results are shown for standard, simple test cases in two and three dimensions which illustrate the effectiveness of the WAF scheme and the improvement in efficiency obtained by the adaptive meshing. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.