A new trigonometric spline approach to numerical solution of generalized nonlinear Klien-Gordon equation

PLoS One. 2014 May 5;9(5):e95774. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095774. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

The generalized nonlinear Klien-Gordon equation plays an important role in quantum mechanics. In this paper, a new three-time level implicit approach based on cubic trigonometric B-spline is presented for the approximate solution of this equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The usual finite difference approach is used to discretize the time derivative while cubic trigonometric B-spline is applied as an interpolating function in the space dimension. Several examples are discussed to exhibit the feasibility and capability of the approach. The absolute errors and L∞ error norms are also computed at different times to assess the performance of the proposed approach and the results were found to be in good agreement with known solutions and with existing schemes in literature.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Models, Theoretical*

Grants and funding

This study was fully supported by FRGS Grant of No. 203/PMATHS/6711324 from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM Penang, Malaysia. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.