A discontinuous Galerkin method for linear symmetric hyperbolic systems in inhomogeneous media

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 22-23, Issue , 2005, Pages 443-477

  Monk, Peter ^a   Richter, Gerard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin; Explicit; Finite elements; Hyperbolic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EXPLICIT DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN (DG) METHOD; MESH SIZES; PRECOMPUTING; TIME-STEPS CONTROLLED;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 17444409296     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10915-004-4132-5     Document Type: Article

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