A high-order nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear fractional Schrödinger type equations

Abstract

We propose a nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the nonlinear Riesz space fractional Schrödinger equation and the strongly coupled nonlinear Riesz space fractional Schrödinger equations. These problems have been expressed as a system of low order differential/integral equations. Moreover, we prove, for both problems, $L^{2}$ stability and optimal order of convergence $O(h^{N+1})$, where $h$ is space step size and $N$ is polynomial degree. Finally, the performed numerical experiments confirm the optimal order of convergence.