• DOI:10.1137/130906489
• Corpus ID: 7207602

Numerical Study of Quantized Vortex Interactions in the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation on Bounded Domains

@article{Bao2014NumericalSO,
  title={Numerical Study of Quantized Vortex Interactions in the Nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger Equation on Bounded Domains},
  author={Weizhu Bao and Qinglin Tang},
  journal={Multiscale Model. Simul.},
  year={2014},
  volume={12},
  pages={411-439}
}

• W. Bao, Qinglin Tang
• Published 1 April 2014
• Physics
• Multiscale Model. Simul.

In this paper, we study numerically quantized vortex dynamics and their interactions in the two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) with a dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon>0$ proportional to the size of the vortex core on bounded domains under either a Dirichlet or a homogeneous Neumann boundary condition (BC). We begin with a review of the reduced dynamical laws for time evolution of quantized vortex centers and show how to solve these nonlinear ordinary differential equations numerically. Then we outline some efficient and accurate numerical methods for discretizing the NLSE on either a rectangle or a disk under either Dirichlet or homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. Based on these efficient and accurate numerical methods for NLSE and the reduced dynamical laws, we simulate quantized vortex interactions of NLSE with different $\varepsilon$ and different initial setups including single vortex, vortex pair, vortex dipole, and vortex cluster, compare them with those obtained from...