Computational uncertainty principle in nonlinear ordinary differential equations (I) - Numerical results

Science in China, Series E: Technological Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  Li, Jianping ^a,b   Zeng, Qingcun ^a   Chou, Jifan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computational uncertainty principle; Discretization error; Maximally effective computation time (MECT); Nonlinear; Optimal stepsize (OS); Ordinary differential equations (ODEs); Round off error; Strong dependence on machine precision; Universal relation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042409330     PISSN: 10069321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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