Fourth order time-stepping for low dispersion korteweg-de vries and nonlinear schrödinger equations

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue , 2007, Pages 116-135

  Klees, Christian ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Exponential time differencing; Integrating factor; Korteweg de Vries equation; Nonlinear Schrodinger equation; Split step

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DISPERSIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

DISPERSIVE EQUATIONS; EXPONENTIAL TIME DIFFERENCING; FOURTH ORDER RUNGE-KUTTA METHODS; FOURTH-ORDER METHOD; INTEGRATING FACTOR; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES; OSCILLATORY REGIONS; SPLIT STEP;

KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION;

EID: 62749134561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10689613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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