A remark on least-squares Galerkin procedures for pseudohyperbolic equations

✍ Scribed by Hui Guo; Hongxing Rui; Chao Lin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 945 KB
• Volume: 229
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-0427
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2008.10.025

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, we introduce two split least-squares Galerkin finite element procedures for pseudohyperbolic equations arising in the modelling of nerve conduction process. By selecting the least-squares functional properly, the procedures can be split into two subprocedures, one of which is for the primitive unknown variable and the other is for the flux. The convergence analysis shows that both the two methods yield the approximate solutions with optimal accuracy in L 2 (Ω) norm for u and u t and (L 2 (Ω)) 2 norm for the flux σ . Moreover, the two methods get approximate solutions with first-order and secondorder accuracy in time increment, respectively. A numerical example is given to show the efficiency of the introduced schemes.