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The numerical solution of linear stiff differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. R. Cash
Affiliation:
Computer Laboratory, Cambridge

Abstract

A general method is given and illustrated by application to particular cases for obtaining subdominant solutions of stiff difference and differential equations, i.e. when rapidly varying solutions – transients or otherwise – are possible but are in fact excluded by the initial conditions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1972

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