On the discrete conservation of the Gauss-Poisson equation of plasma physics

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-34

  Bouchut, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Discrete divergence; Exact discrete conservation; Gauss Poisson equation

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FUNCTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMAS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EXACT DISCRETE CONSERVATION; GAUSS POISSON EQUATIONS; MAXWELL AMPERE'S EQUATIONS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0031701763     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199801)14:1<23::AID-CNM126>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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