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ISRN Mathematical Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 234516, 11 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/234516
Research Article

Cubic Spline Iterative Method for Poisson’s Equation in Cylindrical Polar Coordinates

R. K. Mohanty,1 Rajive Kumar,2 and Vijay Dahiya2

1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India
2Department of Mathematics, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, Murthal 131039, India

Received 4 October 2011; Accepted 16 November 2011

Academic Editors: J.-C. Wallet and H. Zhou

Copyright © 2012 R. K. Mohanty et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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