The Computational Stability Properties of the Shuman Pressure Gradient Averaging Technique.

Abstract

The stability properties of the Shuman pressure gradient averaging technique are investigated with the linearized shallow water equations. In the simplest case an analytic expression is obtained for the stability region, and the maximum time step is shown to be twice the value for the leapfrog scheme. When a mean flow is added to the equations, it is shown the maximum time step must be reduced. The time averaging suggested by Robert is examined, and again leads to a shorter time step. In each case, however, the use of the Shuman averaging allows a significantly longer time step than the conventional leapfrog scheme.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA015317

Entities

People

  • Arthur L. Schoenstadt
  • R. T. Williams

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barometric Pressure
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Processes
  • Equations
  • Meteorological Phenomena
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Shallow Water
  • Water

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