A Fourier pseudospectral method for the “good” Boussinesq equation with second‐order temporal accuracy

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the nonlinear stability and convergence of a fully discrete Fourier pseudospectral method coupled with a specially designed second‐order time‐stepping for the numerical solution of the “good” Boussinesq equation. Our analysis improves the existing results presented in earlier literature in two ways. First, a convergence for the solution and convergence for the time‐derivative of the solution are obtained in this article, instead of the convergence for the solution and the convergence for the time‐derivative, given in De Frutos, et al., Math Comput 57 (1991), 109–122. In addition, we prove that this method is unconditionally stable and convergent for the time step in terms of the spatial grid size, compared with a severe restriction time step restriction required by the proof in De Frutos, et al., Math Comput 57 (1991), 109–122.© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 202–224, 2015

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 24, 2014
Source ID
10.1002/num.21899

Entities

People

  • Cheng Wang
  • Kelong Cheng
  • Sigal Gottlieb
  • Wenqiang Feng

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • National Science Foundation
  • Southwest University of Science and Technology
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Tennessee

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Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Electronics Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Operations Research