Unconditionally optimal convergence of an energy-conserving and linearly implicit scheme for nonlinear wave equations

03/08/2021

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by   Waixiang Cao, et al.

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In this paper, we present and analyze an energy-conserving and linearly implicit scheme for solving the nonlinear wave equations. Optimal error estimates in time and superconvergent error estimates in space are established without time-step dependent on the spatial mesh size. The key is to estimate directly the solution bounds in the H^2-norm for both the nonlinear wave equation and the corresponding fully discrete scheme, while the previous investigations rely on the temporal-spatial error splitting approach. Numerical examples are presented to confirm energy-conserving properties, unconditional convergence, and optimal error estimates, respectively, of the proposed fully discrete schemes.