ON THE USE OF VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES FOR THE SOLUTION OF LINEAR INITIAL-VALUE PROBLEMS,

Abstract

The objective was to investigate the usefulness of variational principles in generating sequences of approximate solutions. The problems under investigation included one of heat conduction and one of wave propagation. The approximate results obtained are compared with well known exact solutions.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0611586

Entities

People

  • Marshall J. Leitman
  • Morton E. Gurtin

Organizations

  • Brown University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Mathematics
  • Sequences
  • Variational Principles
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)