Extended lifetime in computational evolution of isolated black holes

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1477-1495

  Anderson, Matthew ^a,b   Matzner, Richard A ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained evolution; Constraint subtraction; Numerical relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944455399     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-005-6477-x     Document Type: Article

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