Dissipative or conservative finite-difference schemes for complex-valued nonlinear partial differential equations (Q5951782)

The paper proposes a procedure for designing by rote finite difference schemes that inherit energy conservation or the dissipation property from ``complex-valued'' nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). As for ``real-valued'' nonlinear PDE's, recently \textit{D. Furihata} [ibid. 156, No. 1, 181-205 (1999; Zbl 0945.65103)] presented a procedure of the same type. The application is given for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the complex-valued Ginzburg-Landau equation and the Newell-Whitehead equation. Further, a modified procedure for designing linearly implicit schemes is proposed. It is applied again for three mentioned equations. One example of the Newell-Whitehead equation is presented.