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On Some Numerical Methods in Continuum Mechanics

Smith, Paul D.

UCB/SESM-1971/21, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1971, 110 pages

Dissertation treats numerical solution of wave propagation problems applicable to a variety of wave propagation phenomena of classical physics all governed by first order systems of partial differential equations of the symmetric hyrebolic type.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-71-21.pdf (12 MB)