Multi-phase computations of the semiclassical limit of the Schrödinger equation and related problems: Whitham vs Wigner

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 46-85

  Jin, Shi ^a   Li, Xiantao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetic scheme; Liouville equation; Moment system; Multi phase computations; Schr dinger equation; Semiclassical limit; Wigner transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KINETIC SCHEME; LIOUVILLE EQUATION; MOMENT SYSTEM; MULTI-PHASE COMPUTATIONS; SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS; SEMICLASSICAL LIMIT; WIGNER TRANSFORMATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 0442331531     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(03)00124-6     Document Type: Article

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