The numerical solution of fifth-order boundary value problems with sixth-degree B-spline functions

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Caglar H N ^a,b   Caglar S H ^a,b   Twizell, E H ^b  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B splines; Fifth order boundary value problems; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003174082     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(99)00052-X     Document Type: Article

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