Energy-conserving Galerkin approximations for quasigeostrophic dynamics

@article{Watwood2018EnergyconservingGA,
  title={Energy-conserving Galerkin approximations for quasigeostrophic dynamics},
  author={Matthew Watwood and Ian G. Grooms and Keith A. Julien and K. Shafer Smith},
  journal={J. Comput. Phys.},
  year={2018},
  volume={388},
  pages={23-40}
}
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