Discretization effects in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 63-75

  Fibich, Gadi ^a   Ilan, Boaz ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beam collapse; Blowup; Modified equation; Self focusing; Singularity formation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OSCILLATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BEAM COLLAPSE; SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0037214146     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9274(02)00112-5     Document Type: Article

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