Existence and convergence results for the galerkin approximation of an electronic density functional

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2237-2265

  Langwallner, Bernhard ^a   Ortner, Christoph ^a   Süli, Endre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galerkin discretization; Nonlinear eigenvalue problem; Thomas Fermi type functionals

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE RESULTS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; FINITE CLUSTERS; GALERKIN APPROXIMATIONS; GALERKIN DISCRETIZATION; LOCALIZED DEFECTS; NONLINEAR EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; ORBITAL-FREE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; SADDLE POINT; THOMAS-FERMI;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GALERKIN METHODS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 78651245015     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021820251000491X     Document Type: Article

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