Variational approach to the Lane-Emden equation

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 143, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 539-541

  He, Ji Huan ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lane Emden equation; Ritz method; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RITZ METHOD;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0038182679     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00382-X     Document Type: Article

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