BLUES function method in computational physics

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAB345zbMATH Open1390.81013arXiv1802.10090OpenAlexW2788191046MaRDI QIDQ4565023FDOQ4565023

Authors: K. K. Müller-Nedebock, Joseph O. Indekeu 

Publication date: 7 June 2018

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a computational method in physics that goes "beyond linear use of equation superposition" (BLUES). A BLUES function is defined as a solution of a nonlinear differential equation (DE) with a delta source that is at the same time a Green's function for a related linear DE. For an arbitrary source, the BLUES function can be used to construct an exact solution to the nonlinear DE with a different, but related source. Alternatively, the BLUES function can be used to construct an approximate piecewise analytical solution to the nonlinear DE with an arbitrary source. For this alternative use the related linear DE need not be known. The method is illustrated in a few examples using analytical calculations and numerical computations. Areas for further applications are suggested.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10090

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zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionnonlinear differential equationsources

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08)

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