Mesh enhancemen: Selected elliptic methods, foundations and applications

Mesh Enhancemen: Selected Elliptic Methods, Foundations and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-515

  Hansen, Glen A ^a   Douglass, Rod W ^a   Zardecki, Andrew ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MESH GENERATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; ELLIPTIC METHODS; EUCLIDEAN SPACES; HARMONIC COORDINATES; LAPLACE-BELTRAMI; NON-LINEAR ALGEBRAIC SYSTEM; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84967520841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/P351     Document Type: Book

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