Wed, 21 May 2008

13:30 - 14:30
Gibson 1st Floor SR

Numerical analysis of a Fourier spectral method for a pattern forming gradient flow equation

Nicolas Condette
(Humboldt-Univ, Berlin)
Abstract

We propose and analyze a fully discrete Fourier collocation scheme to

solve numerically a nonlinear equation in 2D space derived from a

pattern forming gradient flow. We prove existence and uniqueness of the

numerical solution and show that it converges to a solution of the

initial continuous problem. We also derive some error estimates and

perform numerical experiments to illustrate the theory.

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