Continuous Galerkin Petrov Time Discretization Scheme for the Solutions of the Chen System

Abstract

In this paper, the continuous Galerkin Petrov time discretization (cGP) scheme is applied to the Chen system, which is a three-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with quadratic nonlinearities. In particular, we implement and analyze numerically the higher order cGP(2)-method which is found to be of fourth order at the discrete time points. A numerical comparison with classical fourth-order Runge–Kutta (RK4) is given for the presented problem. We look at the accuracy of the cGP(2) as the Chen system changes from a nonchaotic system to a chaotic one. It is shown that the cGP(2) method gains accurate results at larger time step sizes for both cases.