An accurate computation of the global solution curve for the Gelfand problem through a two point approximation

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 139, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 363-369

  Korman, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Gelfand problem; Spurious solutions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GELFAND PROBLEM;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0037448169     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00199-6     Document Type: Article

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