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Spectral semi-discretisations of weakly nonlinear wave equations over long times

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Hairer, Ernst; Lubich, Christian

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Foundations of computational mathematics, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 319-334

Publication date

2008

Abstract

The long-time behaviour of spectral semi-discretisations of weakly nonlinear wave equations is analysed. It is shown that the harmonic actions are approximately conserved also for the semi-discretised system. This permits to prove that the energy of the wave equation along the interpolated semi-discrete solution remains well conserved over long times and close to the Hamiltonian of the semi-discrete equation. Although the momentum is no longer an exact invariant of the semi-discretisation, it is shown to be approximately conserved. All these results are obtained with the technique of modulated Fourier expansions.

Keywords

  • Nonlinear wave equation
  • Spectral semi-discretisation
  • Long-time behaviour

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HAIRER, Ernst, LUBICH, Christian. Spectral semi-discretisations of weakly nonlinear wave equations over long times. In: Foundations of computational mathematics, 2008, vol. 8, n° 3, p. 319–334. doi: 10.1007/s10208-007-9014-9

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http://www.springerlink.com/content/e697027u2552x70h/

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1615-3375
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