Applicability and applications of the method of fundamental solutions

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 78, Issue 267, 2009, Pages 1399-1434

  Smyrlis, Yiorgos Sokratis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Approximation by special function; Elliptic boundary value problems; Fundamental solutions; Method of fundamental solutions; Trefftz methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749145159     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-09-02191-7     Document Type: Article

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