Accelerated imaginary-time evolution methods for the computation of solitary waves

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 265-292

  Yang, Jianke ^a,b   Lakoba, Taras I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITION; CONVERGENCE CONDITIONS; NORMALISATION; OPTIMAL ACCELERATIONS; PERFORMANCE; POWER NORMALIZATIONS; SPATIAL DIMENSION; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 41549083670     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: 14679590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9590.2008.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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