Optimal error estimates of the Legendre-Petrov-Galerkin method for the Korteweg-De Vries equation

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1380-1394

  Ma, Heping ^a   Sun, Weiwei ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Korteweg de Vries equation; Legendre Petrov Galerkin; Pseudospectral

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042922604     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142900378327     Document Type: Article

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