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These same authors provide some more detailed guidelines as to what types of coordinate changes are of interest [62]. In particular, they describe transformations of the form:
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(3.14a) |
where
are the new coordinates and
are the old.
is prescribed to be diag
and can be thought of as a simple scaling of the original coordinates to a non-dimensional (or rather, ``all-spatial'') form. thus plays an important role, as we shall see later in a discrete setting, as the space step/time step ratio on a numerical grid. Its magnitude will be governed by a stability bound [176], sometimes called the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) criterion, as in conventional explicit finite difference methods (although the manifestation of the condition in the networks we will derive is of a quite different character). The invertible matrix
is usually chosen to be orthogonal [62].
Here, we can see that the requirement (3.14a) will be satisfied if the elements in the rightmost column of
are positive; if is orthogonal, we have
. The bottom row of then consists of positive elements (often chosen equal, so as to give equal contributions from all components to ), in order to satisfy requirement (3.14b).
The differential operators
and
are related by:
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(3.15) |
Also, we introduce the scaled time variable
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(3.16) |
which will necessitate a special treatment in the circuit models to follow. See §3.5.1 for more details.
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Stefan Bilbao
2002-01-22