Preprint of the project: SFB 701: Spectral Structures and Topological Methods in Mathematics - Project B3

Numerical Analysis of equivariant evolution equations

05-017 Vera Thümmler.
Numerical approximation of relative equilibria for equivariant PDEs


In this paper we prove convergence results for the numerical approximation of relative equilibria of equivariant evolution equations with finite differences on an finite equidistant grid with appropriate boundary conditions. Moreover, we consider the approximation of isolated eigenvalues of finite multiplicity of the linear operator which arises from linearization at the equilibrium as well as the approximation of the corresponding invariant subspace. The results in this paper are illustrated by numerical computations for the quintic complex Ginzburg Landau equation.