@Article{NMTMA-10-671, author = {Jianyun Wang and Yunqing Huang}, title = {Fully Discrete Galerkin Finite Element Method for the Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation}, journal = {Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications}, year = {2017}, volume = {10}, number = {3}, pages = {671--688}, abstract = {
This paper is concerned with numerical method for a two-dimensional time-dependent cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
The approximations are obtained by the Galerkin finite element method in space in conjunction with
the backward Euler method and the Crank-Nicolson method in time, respectively. We prove optimal $L^2$ error estimates for two fully discrete schemes by using elliptic projection operator.
Finally, a numerical example is provided to verify our theoretical results.