High Order Energy Preserving Composition Method for Multi-Symplectic Sine-Gordon Equation

Abstract

A fourth-order energy preserving composition scheme for multi-symplectic structure partial differential equations have been proposed. The accuracy and energy conservation properties of the new scheme were verified. The new scheme is applied to solve the multi-symplectic sine-Gordon equation with periodic boundary conditions and compared with the corresponding second-order average vector field scheme and the second-order Preissmann scheme. The numerical experiments show that the new scheme has fourth-order accuracy and can preserve the energy conservation properties well.