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5.1 Initial Value Problems I: Conservative-hyperbolic DE


$\displaystyle \frac{\partial \mbox{$\bf u$}}{\partial t}$ $\textstyle =$ $\displaystyle - \frac{\partial \mbox{$\bf j$}}{\partial x}$  



Best (i.e. most stable, exact, etc.): Lax-Wendroff technique

Approach via:

- FTCS
- Lax
- Leapfrog

Subsections

Franz J. Vesely Oct 2005
See also:
"Computational Physics - An Introduction," Kluwer-Plenum 2001