An investigation into the effect of product approximation in the numerical solution of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (Q1100873): Difference between revisions

The authors study the effect of product approximation on the Galerkin solutions of the one-dimensional cubic Schrödinger equation \(i(\partial u/\partial x)+\partial^ 2u/\partial x^ 2+| u|^ 2u=0,\) \(x\in {\mathbb{R}}\), \(t>0\), \(u(x,0)=f(x),\) \(x\in {\mathbb{R}}\), where the solution u is complex valued and f is some sufficiently smooth function which decreases exponentially as \(| x|\) tends to infinity. A Crank-Nicolson scheme is used to discretize in time. The paper describes two numerical experiments.