A numerical study of the gaussian beam methods for schrodinger-poisson equations

Journal of Computational Mathematics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-272

  Jin, Shi ^a   Wu, Hao ^b   Yang, Xu ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian beam methods; Schrodinger Poisson equations; Vlasov Poisson equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950359784     PISSN: 02549409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/jcm.2009.10-m1005     Document Type: Article

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