A uniformly convergent numerical method for singularly perturbed nonlinear eigenvalue problems

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-160

  Bao, Weizhu ^a   Chai, Ming Huang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bose einstein condensation; Chemical potential; Energy; Excited state; Ground state; Nonlinear eigenvalue problem; Piecewise uniform mesh

Indexed keywords

EID: 50049084081     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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