$ℓ^1$-Error Estimates on the Hamiltonian-Preserving Scheme for the Liouville Equation with Piecewise Constant Potentials: A Simple Proof

$ℓ^1$-Error Estimates on the Hamiltonian-Preserving Scheme for the Liouville Equation with Piecewise Constant Potentials: A Simple Proof

Year:    2017

Author:    Xinchun Li

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 35 (2017), Iss. 6 : pp. 814–827

Abstract

This work is concerned with $ℓ^1$-error estimates on a Hamiltonian-preserving scheme for the Liouville equation with piecewise constant potentials in one space dimension. We provide an analysis much simpler than these in literature and obtain the same half-order convergence rate. We formulate the Liouville equation with discretized velocities into a series of linear convection equations with piecewise constant coefficients, and rewrite the numerical scheme into some immersed interface upwind schemes. The $ℓ^1$-error estimates are then evaluated by comparing the derived equations and schemes.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1701-m2016-0717

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 35 (2017), Iss. 6 : pp. 814–827

Published online:    2017-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    14

Keywords:    Liouville equations Hamiltonian-preserving schemes Piecewise constant potentials $ℓ^1$-error estimate Half-order error bound Semiclassical limit.

Author Details

Xinchun Li