GALERKIN METHODS FOR THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF THE SCHRODINGER EQUATION BY USING TRIGONOMETRIC B-SPLINES.

This paper includes four finite element methods which are based on quadratic, cubic, quartic and quintic trigonometric B-spline functions for space discretization and Crank-Nicolson method for time discretization, to be achieved the numerical solution of the Schrodinger equation (SE). The algorithms obtained by different degrees trigonometric B-spline Galerkin methods are new for getting numerical solution of the SE. To see the accuracy of the proposed methods, two numerical experiments are investigated and the comparison of the methods are given in the test problem section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]