New Self-Similar Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Moving Mesh Computations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 756-789

  Budd, Chris J ^a   Chen, Shaohua ^b   Russell, Robert D ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh methods; Finite time blow up; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Self similar solutions

Indexed keywords

MESH GENERATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE MESH METHOD; FINITE TIME BLOW-UP; FINITE-TIME; MOVING MESH; NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; RADIALLY SYMMETRIC; SECOND ORDERS; SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTION;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0001689908     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6262     Document Type: Article

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