Using MOL to solve a high order nonlinear PDE with a moving boundary in the simulation of a sintering process

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 235-244

  Zhang, Wen ^a  

^a Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SINTERING;

ADAPTIVE SPATIAL MESHES; METHOD OF LINE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0030087127     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9274(95)00129-8     Document Type: Article

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