Self-similar numerical solutions of the porous-medium equation using moving mesh methods

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1754, 1999, Pages 1047-1077

  Budd, C J ^a   Collins, G J ^b   Huang, W Z ^c   Russell, R D ^d  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservation laws; Equidistribution; Lie group invariance; Mesh adaptation; Porous medium equation; Self similar solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347599386     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0364     Document Type: Article

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