Application of cubic B-spline finite element technique to the thermistor problem

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 379-387

  Bahadir, A R ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cubic splines; Finite elements; Thermistor

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTERPOLATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPLINES;

BURGER'S EQUATION; CUBIC SPLINES;

THERMISTORS;

EID: 0348170689     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(03)00146-2     Document Type: Article

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