Numerical simulation of the semi-classical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 254, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 325-336

  Bronski, Jared C ^a   Kutz, J Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; SOLITONS;

ANALYTICAL STUDIES; CLASSICAL LIMITS; DINGER EQUATION; MODULATION EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ZAKHAROV-SHABAT EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0042781006     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00133-4     Document Type: Article

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