Optimal Error Estimates of the Local Discontinuous Galerkin Method and High-order Time Discretization Scheme for the Swift–Hohenberg Equation

摘要

Abstract In this paper, we develop a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the Swift–Hohenberg equation. The energy stability and optimal error estimates in L2documentclass[12pt]{minimal} usepackage{amsmath} usepackage{wasysym} usepackage{amsfonts} usepackage{amssymb} usepackage{amsbsy} usepackage{mathrsfs} usepackage{upgreek} setlength{oddsidemargin}{-69pt} begin{document}$$L^2$$end{document} norm of the semi-discrete LDG scheme are established. To avoid the severe time step restriction of explicit time marching methods, a first-order linear scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method is employed for temporal discretization. Coupled with the LDG spatial discretization, we achieve a fully-discrete LDG method and prove its energy stability and optimal error estimates. To improve the temporal accuracy, the semi-implicit spectral deferred correction (SDC) method is adapted iteratively. Combining with the SAV method, the SDC method can be linear, high-order accurate and energy stable in our numerical tests. Numerical experiments are presented to verify the theoretical results and to show the efficiency of the proposed methods.