Spectral solvers for spherical elliptic problems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-54

  Auteri, F ^a   Quartapelle, L ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SERIES; NUMBER THEORY; POLYNOMIALS;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; ASSOCIATED LEGENDRE FUNCTIONS; BASE FUNCTION; ELLIPTIC PROBLEM; FOURIER EXPANSION; HELMHOLTZ'S EQUATIONS; JACOBI POLYNOMIALS; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; RADIAL STRUCTURE; VARIATIONAL FORMULATION;

SPHERES;

EID: 35348908359     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.07.011     Document Type: Article

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