On the extension of the complex-step derivative technique to pseudospectral algorithms

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 544-549

  Cerviño, Laura I ^a   Bewley, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex step derivative; Directional derivative; Numerical differentiation; Optimization; Tangent linear analysis

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX STEPS; COMPLEX-STEP DERIVATIVE; DERIVATIVE TECHNIQUE; DIRECTIONAL DERIVATIVE; LINEAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL DIFFERENTIATION; OPTIMISATIONS; SIMULATION CODE; TANGENT-LINEAR ANALYSE;

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EID: 0038625270     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00123-2     Document Type: Article

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