Uniform error estimates of finite difference methods for the nonlinear schrödinger equation with wave operator

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 492-521

  Bao, Weizhu ^a   Cai, Yongyong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conservative Crank Nicolson finite difference method; Energy method; Error estimates; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation with wave operator; Semi implicit finite difference method

Indexed keywords

CRANK-NICOLSON; ENERGY METHOD; ERROR ESTIMATES; SEMI-IMPLICIT; WAVE OPERATORS;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 84861381433     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110830800     Document Type: Article

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