A new hybrid imbedded variable-step procedure for the numerical integration of the Schrödinger equation

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 51-63

  Simos, T E ^a,b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Imbedded technique; Phase lag; Schr dinger equation; Second order oscillatory initial value problem; Variable step procedure

Indexed keywords

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; INTEGRATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SCHRODINGER EQUATION; VARIABLE STEP PROCEDURE;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032117901     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(98)00116-3     Document Type: Article

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