On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote: > > > On 31/08/10 15:04, Anders Logg wrote: > > "Poisson equation" sounds strange to me. Shouldn't it be either > > "Poisson's equation", "The Poisson equation", or "A Poisson equation"? > > > > "Poisson equation" is commonly used.
I've never seen it and think it looks strange. > So is "Poisson's equation", but we > don't use "Stokes'", "Cahn-Hilliard's", "Navier-Stokes'", etc. It's not > "A", because there is only one. I don't use "Navier-Stokes' equations". I write "the Navier-Stokes equations" to get around that. -- Anders _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
