Conformal conservation laws and geometric integration for damped Hamiltonian PDEs

  • Authors:
  • Brian E. Moore;Laura NoreñA;Constance M. Schober

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, United States;Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, United States;Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, United States

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Conformal conservation laws are defined and derived for a class of multi-symplectic equations with added dissipation. In particular, the conservation laws of energy and momentum are considered, along with those that arise from linear symmetries. Numerical methods that preserve these conformal conservation laws are presented in detail, providing a framework for proving a numerical method exactly preserves the dissipative properties considered. The conformal methods are compared analytically and numerically to standard conservative methods, which includes a thorough inspection of numerical solution behavior for linear equations. Damped Klein-Gordon and sine-Gordon equations, and a damped nonlinear Schrodinger equation, are used as examples to demonstrate the results.