A general framework for finding energy dissipative/conservative \(H^1\)-Galerkin schemes and their underlying \(H^1\)-weak forms for nonlinear evolution equations (Q486716)

The authors are concerned with the construction of some Galerkin schemes which provide numerical solutions that inherit the energy conservation or dissipation properties of solutions to time-dependent genuinely nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). They restrict themselves to PDEs formulated on finite domains and supplied with Dirichlet, mixed or periodic boundary conditions. Working on the Galerkin ground, they generalize the so-called discrete partial derivative method into a fairly systematic framework. Some numerical results carried out with respect to Kawahara, Camassa-Holm and 2D Swift-Hohenberg equations are reported.