Spurious solitons and structural stability of finite-difference schemes for non-linear wave equations

Claire David and Pierre Sagaut

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2009, vol. 41, issue 2, 655-660

Abstract: The goal of this work is to determine classes of traveling solitary wave solutions for a differential approximation of a finite-difference scheme by means of a hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in finite-difference solutions of non-linear wave equation. The occurrence of such a spurious solitary wave, which exhibits a very long life time, results in a non-vanishing numerical error for arbitrary time in unbounded numerical domain. Such a behavior is referred here to has a structural instability of the scheme, since the space of solutions spanned by the numerical scheme encompasses types of solutions (solitary waves in the present case) that are not solution of the original continuous equations.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2008.02.038

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