Changeset 2328 for documentation/AnuGA_user_manual.tex

Timestamp:

Feb 2, 2006, 6:16:43 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

sexton

Message:

some additions made to the glossary

File:

• documentation/AnuGA_user_manual.tex (modified) (2 diffs)

documentation/AnuGA_user_manual.tex

@@ -447 +447 @@
 \begin{description}
 
-    \item[AnuGA]
+    \item[AnuGA] name of software (joint development between ANU and GA)
     
     \item[Conserved quantity]    
 
-    \item[Default order]
+    \item[Default order] is this really needed?
 
     \item[Domain]
@@ -457 +457 @@
     \item[Dirichlet boundary]
 
-    \item[Elevation]
-
-    \item[Evolution]
+    \item[Elevation] - refers to bathymetry and topography
+
+    \item[bathymetry] offshore
+
+    \item[topography] onshore
+
+    \item[Evolution] integration of the shallow water wave equations over time
 
     \item[Forcing term]
 
-    \item[IDLE]
+    \item[IDLE] development environment shipped with Python
 
     \item[Manning friction coefficient]
     
-    \item[Mesh]    
+    \item[Mesh]    triangulation of domain
+
+    \item[Grid] evenly spaced
 
     \item[NetCDF]
 
-    \item[pmesh]
-
-    \item[pyvolution]
-
-    \item[Quantity]
+    \item[pmesh] does this really need to be here? it's a class/module?
+
+    \item[pyvolution] does this really need to be here? it's a class/module?
+
+    \item[Quantity] conserved (state, x and y momentum)
 
     \item[Reflective boundary]
 
-    \item[Smoothing]
+    \item[Smoothing] is this really needed?
 
     \item[Stage]
 
-    \item[Swollen]
-
-    \item[Time boundary]
-
-    \item[Transmissive boundary]
-
-    \item[xmomentum]
+    \item[Swollen] visualisation tool
+
+    \item[Time boundary] defined in the manual (flog from there)
+
+    \item[Transmissive boundary] defined in the manual (flog from there)
+
+    \item[xmomentum] conserved quantity (note, two-dimensional SWW equations say only x and y and NOT z)
     
-    \item[ymomentum]    
+    \item[ymomentum]  conserved quantity 
+
+    \item[resolution]   refers to the maximal area of each triangular cell in the mesh
+
+    \item[easting]   
+
+    \item[northing]   
+
+    \item[latitude]   
+
+    \item[longitude]   
+
+    \item[edge]   
+
+    \item[vertex]  
+ 
+    \item[finite volume]  
+
+    \item[flux]  
+
+    \item[Digital Elevation Model (DEM)]