A Constructive Method for Finding Critical Point of the Ginzburg-Landau Energy Functional
Description:
In this work I present a constructive method for finding critical points of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional using the method of Sobolev gradients. I give a description of the construction of the Sobolev gradient and obtain convergence results for continuous steepest descent with this gradient. I study the Ginzburg-Landau functional with magnetic field and the Ginzburg-Landau functional without magnetic field. I then present the numerical results I obtained by using steepest descent with t…
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Date:
August 2008
Creator:
Kazemi, Parimah