Parallel strategies for the step by step Tau method

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 137, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 277-292

  Escalante, René ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Lanczos Tau method; Parallelism; Piecewise polynomial approximation; Step by step Tau method

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 0037466695     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00123-6     Document Type: Article

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