Review of inverse Laplace transform algorithms for Laplace-space numerical approaches

Numerical Algorithms

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 339-355

  Kuhlman, Kristopher L ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Diffusion; Groundwater modeling; Helmholtz equation; Laplace space numerical methods; Numerical Laplace transform inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878319621     PISSN: 10171398     EISSN: 15729265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11075-012-9625-3     Document Type: Article

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