TT-M Finite Element Algorithm for the Coupled Schrödinger–Boussinesq Equations

Abstract

In this article, the coupled Schrödinger–Boussinesq equations are solved numerically using the finite element method combined with the time two-mesh (TT-M) fast algorithm. The spatial direction is discretized by the standard Galerkin finite element method, the temporal direction is approximated by the TT-M Crank–Nicolson scheme, and then the numerical scheme of TT-M finite element (FE) system is formulated. The method includes three main steps: for the first step, the nonlinear system is solved on the coarse time mesh; for the second step, by an interpolation formula, the numerical solutions at the fine time mesh point are computed based on the numerical solutions on the coarse mesh system; for the last step, the linearized temporal fine mesh system is constructed based on Taylor’s formula for two variables, and then the TT-M FE solutions can be obtained. Furthermore, theory analyses on the TT-M system including the stability and error estimations are conducted. Finally, a large number of numerical examples are provided to verify the accuracy of the algorithm, the correctness of theoretical results, and the computational efficiency with a comparison to the numerical results calculated by using the standard FE method.

Keywords

• coupled Schrödinger–Boussinesq equations
• finite element method
• time two-mesh (TT-M) method