A BDF2-approach for the non-linear Fokker-Planck equation

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2019120zbMATH Open1417.35202arXiv1801.09603OpenAlexW2963099709WikidataQ128530407 ScholiaQ128530407MaRDI QIDQ1735366FDOQ1735366

Authors: Simon Plazotta 

Publication date: 28 March 2019

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove convergence of a variational formulation of the BDF2 method applied to the non-linear Fokker-Planck equation. Our approach is inspired by the JKO-method and exploits the differential structure of the underlying $L^2$-Wasserstein space. The technique presented here extends and strengthens the results of our own recent work on the BDF2 method for general metric gradient flows in the special case of the non-linear Fokker-Planck equation: firstly, we do not require uniform semi-convexity of the augmented energy functional; secondly, we prove strong instead of merely weak convergence of the time-discrete approximations; thirdly, we directly prove without using the abstract theory of curves of maximal slope that the obtained limit curve is a weak solution of the non-linear Fokker-Planck equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09603

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zbMATH Keywords

gradient flowminimizing movementssecond-order schemeBDF2non-linear diffusion equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Numerical solutions to abstract evolution equations (65J08) Initial value problems for higher-order parabolic systems (35K46)

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