Adaptive absorbing boundary conditions for Schrödinger-type equations: Application to nonlinear and multi-dimensional problems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1577-1589

  Xu, Zhenli ^a   Han, Houde ^a,b   Wu, Xiaonan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Artificial boundary conditions; Finite difference method; Fourier transform; Group velocity; Nonlinear Schr dinger equations; Time splitting

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LIGHT VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION; ADAPTIVE APPROACH; ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE METHODS; GABOR TRANSFORM; GROUP VELOCITIES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION; TIME SPLITTING; WAVE NUMBERS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 34547508947     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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