Backscattering and nonparaxiality arrest collapse of damped nonlinear waves

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1718-1736

  Fibich, G ^a   Ilan, B ^a   Tsynkov, S ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kerr medium; Limiting absorption; Linear damping; Nonlinear wave propagation; Self focusing; Singularity formation; Two way ABCs

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

MATHEMATICAL SINGULARITIES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0345327613     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139902411855     Document Type: Article

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