THE INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM IN NUMERICAL RELATIVITY

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 497-520

  Pfeiffer, Harald P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Einsteins equations; initial value problem; numerical relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744773281     PISSN: 02198916     EISSN: 17936993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219891605000518     Document Type: Article

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