Sobolev gradient approach for the time evolution related to energy minimization of Ginzburg-Landau functionals

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2566-2571

  Raza, Nauman ^a,b   Sial, Sultan ^b   Siddiqi, Shahid S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Model A; Sobolev gradient

Indexed keywords

PHASE SEPARATION;

ENERGY MINIMA; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; FUNCTIONALS; GINZBURG-LANDAU; GRADIENT APPROACH; GRADIENT'S METHODS; MODEL A; SOBOLEV GRADIENTS; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

GRADIENT METHODS;

EID: 60349102326     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.12.017     Document Type: Article

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