Convergence of a higher-order scheme for Korteweg-de Vries equation

Abstract

We study the convergence of higher order schemes for the Cauchy problem associated to the KdV equation. More precisely, we design a Galerkin type implicit scheme which has higher order accuracy in space and first order accuracy in time. The convergence is established for initial data in L^2, and we show that the scheme converges strongly in L^2(0,T; L^2_loc(\R)) to a weak solution. Finally, the convergence is illustrated by several examples.

20 pages, 2 figures