A comparative study of explicit differential operators on arbitrary grids

Journal of Computational Acoustics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1111-1125

  Käser, Martin ^a   Igel, Heiner ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^b   Braun, Jean ^b  

^a Inst fur Allg und Angew Geophys   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0035602720     PISSN: 0218396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218396X01000838     Document Type: Article

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