Print Email Facebook Twitter Mesh generation in archipelagos Title Mesh generation in archipelagos Author Terwisscha van Scheltinga, A. Myers, P.G. Pietrzak, J.D. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2012-06-30 Abstract A new mesh size field is presented that is specifically designed for efficient meshing of highly irregular oceanic domains: archipelagos. The new approach is based on the standard mesh size field that uses the proximity to the nearest coastline. Here, the proximities to the two nearest coastlines are used to calculate the distance between two islands or the width of a strait through an archipelago. The local value of the mesh size field is taken as the width (or distance between two islands) divided by the number of required elements across the strait (or between the islands). This new mesh size fields are illustrated for three examples: (1) the Aegean Sea, (2) the Indonesian Archipelago, and (3) the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Subject unstructured meshesmesh generationmulti-scale modelingoceanography To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:278c4712-82d7-43f9-8506-121952bf889e DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-012-0559-z Publisher Springer ISSN 1616-7341 Source http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10236-012-0559-z?null Source Ocean Dynamics: theoretical, computational oceanography and monitoring, 62 (8), 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 Springer-Verlag Files PDF 283119.pdf 1.29 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:278c4712-82d7-43f9-8506-121952bf889e/datastream/OBJ/view