Analyzing and visualizing a discretized semilinear elliptic problem with Neumann boundary conditions

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 261-279

  Hwang, Tsung Min ^a   Wang, Weichung ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Mathematics Education   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Discretization on polar coordinates; Monotonicity; Numerical methods; q axial symmetry; Semilinear Neumann problem; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036569430     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.10006     Document Type: Article

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