Unconditional optimal error estimates of linearized backward Euler Galerkin FEMs for nonlinear Schrödinger-Helmholtz equations (Q2661678)

The paper deals with the numerical solution of the Schrödinger-Helmholtz equations by the linearized backward Euler Galerkin finite element methods. The authors derive unconditionally optimal error estimates using the temporal-spatial error splitting techniques, where the error between the exact solution and the numerical solution is split into two parts which are called the temporal error and the spatial error. First, they prove the uniform boundedness for the solution of this time-discrete system in some strong norms and derive error estimates in temporal direction. Second, by the above achievements, they obtain the boundedness of the numerical solution in the \(L^\infty\)-norm. Then, the optimal \(L^2\) error estimates for \(r\)-order FEMs are derived without any restriction on the time step size. Numerical results in both two- and three-dimensional spaces justify the theoretical predictions and demonstrate the efficiency of the methods.