The splitting in potential Crank-Nicolson scheme with discrete transparent boundary conditions for the Schr\"odinger equation on a semi-infinite strip

We consider an initial-boundary value problem for a generalized 2D time-dependent Schrodinger equation (with variable coefficients) on a semi-infinite strip. For the Crank-Nicolson-type finite-difference scheme with approximate or discrete transparent boundary conditions (TBCs), the Strang-type splitting with respect to the potential is applied. For the resulting method, the unconditional uniform in time $L^2$-stability is proved. Due to the splitting, an effective direct algorithm using FFT is developed now to implement the method with the discrete TBC for general potential. Numerical results on the tunnel effect for rectangular barriers are included together with the detailed practical error analysis confirming nice properties of the method.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, 4 table

On symmetric equilibrium of an isothermal gas with a free boundary and a body force

The equation of symmetric equilibrium of an isothermal gas with an unknown boundary in the field of a body force is considered. Conditions for solvability and insolvability of the problem as well as for uniqueness and nonuniqueness of solutions are presented. Examples of finite, countable, or continual sets of solutions are constructed including equipotential ones. Static stability of solutions is analyzed too

Verification of an entropy dissipative QGD-scheme for the 1D gas dynamics equations

An entropy dissipative spatial discretization has recently been constructed for the multidimensional gas dynamics equations based on their preliminary parabolic quasi-gasdynamic (QGD) regularization. In this paper, an explicit finite-difference scheme with such a discretization is verified on several versions of the 1D Riemann problem, both well-known in the literature and new. The scheme is compared with the previously constructed QGD-schemes and its merits are noticed. Practical convergence rates in the mesh L1-norm are computed. We also analyze the practical relevance in the nonlinear statement as the Mach number grows of recently derived necessary conditions for L2-dissipativity of the Cauchy problem for a linearized QGD-scheme