A Fourier spectral-discontinuous Galerkin method for time-dependent 3-D Schrödinger-Poisson equations with discontinuous potentials

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 588-614

  Lu, Tiao ^a   Cai, Wei ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Derivative matrix; Discontinuous Galerkin method; Discontinuous potentials; PML; Schr dinger Newton equations; Schr dinger Poisson equations; Spectral method; Total scattering wave formula

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION;

DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD (DGM); ELSEVIER (CO); EXPONENTIAL TIME DIFFERENCING; FOURIER; HETERO JUNCTION; HIGH ORDER; LONGITUDINAL PROPAGATION; NICHOLSON METHODS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; POISSON; SPECTRAL-GALERKIN METHODS; TIME INTEGRATION SCHEMES; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRANSVERSE DIRECTION (TD);

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 47849084290     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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