An Eulerian method for capturing caustics

DOI10.1006/JCPH.2000.6530zbMath0958.65076OpenAlexW2042508339MaRDI QIDQ1577028

Ian Solliec, Jean-David Benamou

Publication date: 30 March 2001

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00072873/file/RR-3786.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Hamilton-Jacobi equationviscosity solutionnumerical examplestransport equationEuler methodcausticsray tracing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Geometric optics (78A05)

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