Analytical and numerical treatment of a singular initial value problem in avalanche modeling

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 561-570

  Koch, Othmar ^a   Weinmüller, Ewa ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Avalanche run out; Existence of solution; Implicit Euler method; Iterated defect correction; Leading edge model; Numerical solution; Singular initial value problem

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NUMERICAL TREATMENT;

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 17144434591     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00919-0     Document Type: Article

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