Numerical methods and comparison for computing dark and bright solitons in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 235, Issue , 2013, Pages 423-445

  Bao, Weizhu ^a   Tang, Qinglin ^a   Xu, Zhiguo ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Bright soliton; Dark soliton; Finite difference method; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Spectral method; Time splitting

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS;

BRIGHT SOLITONS; CUBIC NONLINEARITIES; DARK SOLITONS; DEFOCUSING; FAR-FIELD; FINITE-DIFFERENCE METHODS; NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGE EQUATION; SIMPLE++; SPECTRAL METHODS; TIME SPLITTING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84871016569     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.10.054     Document Type: Article

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