Approximation of parabolic PDEs on spheres using spherical basis functions

Advances in Computational Mathematics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 377-397

  Le Gia, Q T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collocation method; Heat equation; Radial basis functions; Spheres

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544362394     PISSN: 10197168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10444-003-3960-9     Document Type: Article

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