Computation of self-similar solution profiles for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Computing (Vienna/New York)

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-346

  Budd, C ^a,b   Koch, O ^a,c   Weinmuller E ^a,c  

^a University of Bath ^*

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blow up solutions; Collocation methods; Error estimation; Essential singularity; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

BLOW-UP SOLUTIONS; COLLOCATION METHODS; ESSENTIAL SINGULARITY; NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION; SELF-SIMILARITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33745672093     PISSN: 0010485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00607-005-0157-8     Document Type: Article

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