Error estimates for Galerkin approximations of the 'classical' Boussinesq system

Autor: D. C. Antonopoulos, Vassilios A. Dougalis
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Mathematics of Computation. 82:689-717
ISSN: 1088-6842
0025-5718
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-2012-02663-9
Popis: We consider the ‘classical’ Boussinesq system in one space dimension and its symmetric analog. These systems model two-way propagation of nonlinear, dispersive long waves of small amplitude on the surface of an ideal fluid in a uniform horizontal channel. We discretize an initial-boundary-value problem for these systems in space using Galerkin-finite element methods and prove error estimates for the resulting semidiscrete problems and also for their fully discrete analogs effected by explicit Runge-Kutta time-stepping procedures. The theoretical orders of convergence obtained are consistent with the results of numerical experiments that are also presented.
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