A Conservative Spectral Method for Several Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Wave Equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 467-487

  Feng, B F ^a   Kawahara, T ^a   Mitsui, T ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservative spectral method; Linear stability analysis; Lump type soliton; Numerical dispersion; Quasi soliton; Riemann theta function solution; phase solution

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CONSERVATIVE SPECTRAL METHOD; LUMP-TYPE SOLITON; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; PHASE SOLUTIONS; QUASISOLITONS; RIEMANN THETA FUNCTION; RIEMANN THETA-FUNCTION SOLUTION; SPECTRAL METHODS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; Ν-PHASE SOLUTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0001676964     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6286     Document Type: Article

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