Finite element methods for coastal flows : application to the Great Barrier Reef

• Main Author: Lambrechts, Jonathan
• Other Authors: UCL - SST/IMMC/MEMA - Applied mechanics and mathematics, Legat, Vincent, Deleersnijder, Eric, Remacle, Jean-François, Winckelmans, Grégoire, Hanert, Emmanuel, Dupret, François, Geuzaine, Christophe, Wolanski, Eric
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Finite elements; Ocean; Great Barrier Reef; Unstructured meshes; Mesh generation; Hydrodynamics; Coastal flows; Multiscale; Near Islands; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/75973

Traditional ocean models are based on finite difference methods and solve the governing equations on structured grids. This PhD research is part of the SLIM (Second-generation Louvain-la-neuve Ice-ocean Model) project whose objective is to bring to oceanography the geometrical flexibility of unstruc...