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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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The dimensionality of the input space of the T operator can be further reduced from the number obtained by simply combining the number of variables with the number of discretization intervals.
This article will discuss the method used to reformulate the governing equations and their discretization using the finite element method as well as some preliminary results.
 
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