Optimizing Talbot's contours for the inversion of the Laplace transform

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2342-2362

  Weideman, J A C ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fractional differential equation; Laplace transform; Talbot's method; Trapezoidal rule

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; TALBOT'S METHOD; TRAPEZOIDAL RULE;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 34548172888     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050625837     Document Type: Article

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