A scattering-based algorithm for wave propagation in one dimension

2017/03/12 by Gibson, Peter C.
#35L05 #65M #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.04125

Abstract

We present an explicit numerical scheme to solve the variable coefficient wave equation in one space dimension with minimal restrictions on the coefficient and initial data.

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