Postprocessing Techniques of High-Order Galerkin Approximations to Nonlinear Second-Order Initial Value Problems with Applications to Wave Equations

Postprocessing Techniques of High-Order Galerkin Approximations to Nonlinear Second-Order Initial Value Problems with Applications to Wave Equations

Year:    2024

Author:    Mingzhu Zhang, Lijun Yi

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 35 (2024), Iss. 3 : pp. 816–858

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose and analyze two postprocessing techniques for improving the accuracy of the $C^1$- and $C^0$-continuous Galerkin (CG) time stepping methods for nonlinear second-order initial value problems, respectively. We first derive several optimal a priori error estimates and nodal superconvergent estimates for the $C^1$- and $C^0$-$CG$ methods. Then we propose two simple but efficient local postprocessing techniques for the $C^1$- and $C^0$-$CG$ methods, respectively. The key idea of the postprocessing techniques is to add a certain higher order generalized Jacobi polynomial of degree $k+1$ to the $C^1$- or $C^0$-$CG$ approximation of degree $k$ on each local time step. We prove that, for problems with regular solutions, such postprocessing techniques improve the global convergence rates for the $L^2$-, $H^1$- and $L^∞$-error estimates of the $C^1$- and $C^0$-$CG$ methods with quasi-uniform meshes by one order. As applications, we apply the superconvergent postprocessing techniques to the $C^1$- and $C^0$-$CG$ time discretization of nonlinear wave equations. Several numerical examples are presented to verify the theoretical results.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2023-0232

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 35 (2024), Iss. 3 : pp. 816–858

Published online:    2024-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    43

Keywords:    Galerkin time stepping second-order initial value problem superconvergent postprocessing.

Author Details

Mingzhu Zhang

Lijun Yi

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