A Wigner-measure analysis of the Dufort-Frankel scheme for the Schrödinger equation

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1281-1310

  Markowich, Peter A ^a   Pietra, Paola ^b   Pohl, Carsten ^c   Stimming, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite difference scheme; Schr dinger equation; Semiclassical limit; Wigner measure

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WIGNER MEASURE;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 0141645582     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142900381734     Document Type: Article

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