An Eulerian Method for Capturing Caustics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 132-163

  Benamou, Jean David ^a   Solliec, Ian ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive grid refinement; Caustic; Free boundary; Hamilton Jacobi; Hamiltonian system; Ray tracing; Upwind scheme; Viscosity solution

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; RAY TRACING;

ADAPTIVE GRID REFINEMENT; CAUSTIC; EULERIAN METHOD; FREE BOUNDARY; HAMILTON-JACOBI; HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS; LOCALISATION; SYSTEMS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; UP-WIND SCHEME; VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0001415492     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6530     Document Type: Article

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