COMPUTATIONAL HIGH-FREQUENCY WAVE PROPAGATION USING THE LEVEL SET METHOD, WITH APPLICATIONS TO THE SEMI-CLASSICAL LIMIT OF SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS¤

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 593-621

  Cheng, Li Tien ^a   Liu, Hailiang ^b,c   Osher, Stanley ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Level Set Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Level set method; Multivalued phases; Schrodinger s equation; Semiclassical limit; Wave front

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242697504     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2003.v1.n3.a10     Document Type: Article

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