Inner products in covolume and mimetic methods

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 941-959

  Trapp, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Compatible discretization; Covolume method; Discrete exact sequence; Discrete Helmholtz orthogonality; Mimetic method

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049089695     PISSN: 0764583X     EISSN: 12903841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/m2an:2008030     Document Type: Article

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