An Accurate Semi-Analytic Finite Difference Scheme for Two-Dimensional Elliptic Problems with Singularities

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-296

  Yosibash, Z ^a   Arad, M ^a   Yakhot, A ^a   Ben Dor, G ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elliptic PDE; High order Finite Difference Schemes; Laplace equation; Singularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842632053     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2426(199805)14:3<281::AID-NUM1>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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