Numerical Approximation of Discontinuous Solutions of the Semilinear Wave Equation

Abstract

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 214-238, February 2025.
Abstract. A high-frequency recovered fully discrete low-regularity integrator is constructed to approximate rough and possibly discontinuous solutions of the semilinear wave equation. The proposed method, with high-frequency recovery techniques, can capture the discontinuities of the solutions correctly without spurious oscillations and approximate rough and discontinuous solutions with a higher convergence rate than preexisting methods. Rigorous analysis is presented for the convergence rates of the proposed method in approximating solutions such that [math] for [math]. For discontinuous solutions of bounded variation in one dimension (which allow jump discontinuities), the proposed method is proved to have almost first-order convergence under the step size condition [math], where [math] and [math] denote the time step size and the number of Fourier terms in the space discretization, respectively. Numerical examples are presented in both one and two dimensions to illustrate the advantages of the proposed method in improving the accuracy in approximating rough and discontinuous solutions of the semilinear wave equation. The numerical results are consistent with the theoretical results and show the efficiency of the proposed method.