Pantograph and catenary dynamics: A benchmark problem and its numerical solution

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 345-362

  Arnold, M ^a   Simeon, B ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PANTOGRAPHS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK;

DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS (DAE);

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0034247457     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9274(99)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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