Fourth- and sixth-order conservative finite difference approximations of the divergence and gradient

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 171-187

  Castillo, J E ^a   Hyman, J M ^b   Shashkov, M ^b   Steinberg, S ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DIVERGENCE OPERATORS; GRADIENT OPERATORS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 0035311279     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9274(00)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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