Solving the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation via Quartic Spline Approximation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 400-417

  Sheng, Q ^a   Khaliq, A Q M ^b   Al Said, E A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Energy conservation; Generalized Schr dinger equation; Quartic spline approximation; Semidiscretization; Solitary waves; Stability

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLITONS;

CENTRAL DIFFERENCE; CONTINUOUS ENERGY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE METHODS; GENERALIZED SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION; NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITION; NUMERICAL SCHEME; QUARTIC SPLINE; QUARTIC SPLINE APPROXIMATION; SEMIDISCRETIZATION; SPLINE APPROXIMATIONS;

STABILITY;

EID: 0347708733     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6668     Document Type: Article

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