Backward error analysis for variational discretisations of PDEs

DOI10.3934/JGM.2022014MaRDI QIDQ2171129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Offen, Robert I. McLachlan

Publication date 23 September 2022

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14172

zbMATH Keywords

backward error analysisEuler-Lagrange equationsmultisymplectic integratorsPalais' principlesymmetric criticalityvariational integrators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15)

Abstract: In backward error analysis, an approximate solution to an equation is compared to the exact solution to a nearby modified equation. In numerical ordinary differential equations, the two agree up to any power of the step size. If the differential equation has a geometric property then the modified equation may share it. In this way, known properties of differential equations can be applied to the approximation. But for partial differential equations, the known modified equations are of higher order, limiting applicability of the theory. Therefore, we study symmetric solutions of discretized partial differential equations that arise from a discrete variational principle. These symmetric solutions obey infinite-dimensional functional equations. We show that these equations admit second-order modified equations which are Hamiltonian and also possess first-order Lagrangians in modified coordinates. The modified equation and its associated structures are computed explicitly for the case of rotating travelling waves in the nonlinear wave equation.

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