densitize

English

Etymology

densit(y) + -ize

Verb

densitize (third-person singular simple present densitizes, present participle densitizing, simple past and past participle densitized)

  1. (uncommon) To make more dense.
    • 2004, Nicolae Tarfulea, Constraint Preserving Boundary Conditions for Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations:
      Fortunately, the hyperbolicity of the system can be changed by densitizing the lapse and adding constraints to the evolution equations. We densitize the lapse by writing: [...], where [...x] is the densitization parameter, [...]
    • 2008, Miguel Alcubierre, Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 181:
      Just as is done in the NOR system, the standard KST formulation uses a fixed densitized lapse of the form [...]. The reason for this is that by densitizing the lapse we are transforming derivatives of ai into derivatives of dimm.

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