Evolution of scalar fields from characteristic data

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(92)90169-YMaRDI QIDQ1184632zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Isaacson, Roberto Gomez, Jeffrey Winicour

Publication date 28 June 1992

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(92)90169-y

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmbackscatteringcharacteristic surfacescompactification methodsglobal convergencehyperbolic systemsMaxwell-Yang-Mills, and gravitational fieldsmethod of characteristicsnonlinear wave equationNumerical resultsradiation fieldsradiative tail decaysecond order methodsolitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) Soliton equations (35Q51) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Numerical aspects of the method of characteristics for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M25)

Review text

The authors present an algorithm for solving a nonlinear wave equation with initial data given on characteristic surfaces. The equation is written in characteristic variables and integrated over rectangles. Numerical results confirm that the method is second order.

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