Hermite spectral methods with a time-dependent scaling for parabolic equations in unbounded domains

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-75

  Ma, Heping ^a   Sun, Weiwei ^b   Tang, Tao ^c,d  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Hermite spectral method; Stability; Time dependent scaling

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STABILITY;

CONVERGENCE; HERMITE SPECTRAL METHOD; TIME-DEPENDENT SCALING;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644559975     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142903421278     Document Type: Article

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