An efficient numerical method for solving the Korteveg-de Vries equation in a class of discontinuous functions

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 102, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 139-154

  Rasulov, Mahir ^a   Coskun, Erhan ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Korteveg de Vries; Solitary waves; Travelling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038667172     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(98)10022-X     Document Type: Article

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