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discretization
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discretization [dis‚krēd·ə′zā·shən]
(mathematics)
A procedure in the numerical solution of partial differential equations in which the domain of the independent variable is subdivided into cells or elements and the equations are expressed in discrete form at each point by finite difference, finite volume, or finite element methods.


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A discretisation of this formula is the basis of our method, see also Chapter 4 in Ohser and Mucklich (2000) and Lang et al.
Numerical Methods The discretisation of the partial differential equations is done using a finite difference scheme (1st-2nd order); and a predictor corrector 2nd order time integrator.
 
 
 
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