Approximating time evolution related to Ginzburg-Landau functionals via Sobolev gradient methods in a finite-element setting

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1621-1625

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Model A; Sobolev gradient

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT SETTING; FUNCTIONALS; GINZBURG-LANDAU; GRADIENT'S METHODS; MODEL A; SOBOLEV GRADIENTS; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

GRADIENT METHODS;

EID: 72449203601     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.048     Document Type: Article

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