A Hamiltonian‐Preserving Scheme for the Liouville Equation of Geometrical Optics with Partial Transmissions and Reflections

DOI10.1137/050631343zbMath1128.35012OpenAlexW2073649388MaRDI QIDQ5422467

Xin Wen, Shih Jin

Publication date: 22 October 2007

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/050631343

zbMATH Keywords

high frequency limittransmission and reflectionSnell's law of refractiongeometrical optics Liouville equationHamiltonia-preserving schemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) Geometric optics (78A05)

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