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Error estimates for Galerkin finite element methods for the Camassa–Holm equation

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posted on 2020-06-17, 22:06 authored by DC Antonopoulos, VA Dougalis, Dimitrios MitsotakisDimitrios Mitsotakis
© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. We consider the Camassa–Holm (CH) equation, a nonlinear dispersive wave equation that models one-way propagation of long waves of moderately small amplitude. We discretize in space the periodic initial-value problem for CH (written in its original and in system form), using the standard Galerkin finite element method with smooth splines on a uniform mesh, and prove optimal-order L2-error estimates for the semidiscrete approximation. Using the fourth-order accurate, explicit, “classical” Runge–Kutta scheme for time-stepping, we construct a highly accurate, stable, fully discrete scheme that we employ in numerical experiments to approximate solutions of CH, mainly smooth travelling waves and nonsmooth solitons of the ‘peakon’ type.

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Antonopoulos, D.C., Dougalis, V.A. & Mitsotakis, D.E. (2019). Error estimates for Galerkin finite element methods for the Camassa–Holm equation. Numerische Mathematik, 142(4), 833-862. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-019-01045-7

Journal title

Numerische Mathematik

Volume

142

Issue

4

Publication date

2019-08-01

Pagination

833-862

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Publication status

Published

Online publication date

2019-05-11

ISSN

0029-599X

eISSN

0945-3245

Language

en

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