A multisymplectic variational integrator for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 523-536

  Chen, Jing Bo ^a   Qin, Meng Zhao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING COMPUTING   (China)

Author keywords

Multisymplectic integrator; Multisymplectic structure; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Variational integrator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036644593     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.10021     Document Type: Article

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