The electron states in axially symmetric quantum wires are computed by means of the effective mass Schrodinger equation, which is written in cylindrical coordinates \phi, \rho, and z. We show that a direct discretization of the Schrodinger equation by central finite differences leads to a nonsymmetricHamiltonian matrix. Because diagonalization of such matrices is more complex it is advantageous...

We present a new Vlasov code for collisionless plasmas in the nonrelativistic regime. A Darwin approximation is used for suppressing electromagnetic vacuum modes. The spatial integration is based on an extension of the flux-conservative scheme, introduced by Filbet et al. [F. Filbet, E. Sonnendrücker, P. Bertrand, Conservative numerical schemes for the Vlasov equation, J. Comput. Phys. 172 (200...

present paper investigates the numerical solution of two-dimensional unsteady compressible navier-stokes equations by a new scheme based on the finite volume method. kinetic energy preserving (kep) scheme is introduced for solving the supersonic and transonic external compressible flow field on very fine grids (with a number of cells of the order of the reynolds number) without artificial dissi...

The pseudospectral (or Fourier) method has been used recently by several investigators for forward seismic modeling. The method is introduced here in two different ways: as a limit of finite differences of increasing orders, and by trigonometric interpolation. An argument based on spectral analysis of a model equation shows that the pseudospectral method (for the accuracies and integration time...

We develop and demonstrate a computationally efficient numerical splitting technique for solving the reaction–diffusion equation. The scheme is based on the Strang splitting technique wherein the portions of the governing equations containing stiff chemical reaction terms are separated from those parts containing the less-stiff transport terms. As demonstrated, the scheme achieves second-order ...

high-precision three-axis attitude control scheme is vitally important to deal with the overactuated spacecraft, as long as the overall performance through rapid response can be in general acquired. due to the fact that the rigid-flexible spacecraft is somehow applicable, in so many academic and real environments, there is a consensus among experts of this field that the new insights in develop...

A sequential implicit numerical scheme is proposed for a system of partial differential equations defining the transport of heat and mass in the channel flow of a variable-viscosity fluid. By adopting the backward difference scheme for time derivative and the central difference scheme for the spatial derivatives, an implicit finite difference scheme is formulated. The variable-coefficient diffu...

This paper presents a comparative study on the newly introduced weak Galerkin finite element methods (WGFEMs) with the widely accepted discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEMs) and the classical mixed finite element methods (MFEMs) for solving second-order elliptic boundary value problems. We examine the differences, similarities, and connection among these methods in scheme formul...

We propose a general study of the convergence of a Hermite subdivision scheme H of degree d > 0 in dimension 1. This is done by linking Hermite subdivision schemes and Taylor polynomials and by associating a so-called Taylor subdivision (vector) scheme S. The main point of investigation is a spectral condition. If the subdivision scheme of the finite differences of S is contractive, then S is C...