New Paper ‘On the Rate of Error Growth in Time for Numerical Solutions of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations’ published in Partial Differential Equations and Applications

The paper On the Rate of Error Growth in Time for Numerical Solutions of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations of Manuel Quezada de Luna, David I. Ketcheson, and me has been published in Partial Differential Equations and Applications.

We study the numerical error in solitary wave solutions of nonlinear dispersive wave equations. A number of existing results for discretizations of solitary wave solutions of particular equations indicate that the error grows quadratically in time for numerical methods that do not conserve energy, but grows only linearly for conservative methods. We provide numerical experiments suggesting that this result extends to a very broad class of equations and numerical methods.