Interface conditions for wave propagation through mesh refinement boundaries

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 398-425

  Choi, Dae Il ^a,b   Brown, J David ^a,c   Imbirida, Breno ^a,d   Centrella, Joan ^a   MacNeice, Peter ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational techniques; Finite difference methods; Gravitational waves; Mesh generation and refinement; Numerical relativity; Partial differential equations

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MESH GENERATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELATIVITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE METHODS; FIXED MESH; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES; GUARD CELLS; INTERFACE CONDITIONS; MESH GENERATION AND REFINEMENT; MESH REFINEMENT; NUMERICAL RELATIVITY; PROPAGATION OF WAVES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 0348222800     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2003.07.036     Document Type: Article

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