Symbolic Derivation of Finite Difference Approximations for the Three-Dimensional Poisson Equation

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 593-606

  Gupta, Murli M ^a   Kouatchou, Jules ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference approximations; Mathematica; Poisson equation; Symbolic computation; Three dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000019404     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2426(199809)14:5<593::AID-NUM4>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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