國家理論科學研究中心
 NCTS Seminar on Dynamical Systems and Scientific Computation  

 

Speaker:   Professor Hong Jialin
                 (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

Time:         May 11 (Thurs.), 2006  AM 11.00~12.00

 

Topic:       Multi-symplectic Runge-Kutta type methods for Hamiltonian       

                  partial differential equations

Abstract:
   Mathematicians and scientists have paid much more attention to structure-preserving algorithms of dynamical systems since Professor Kang Feng proposed and systematically developed the so-called symplectic algorithms for Hamiltonian systems in the late 1980s. Multi-symplectic numerical methods for infinite–dimensional Hamiltonian systems, such as Dirac equations and Schroedinger equations, play an important role in scientific and engineering computing. In this talk, we introduce some fundamental results on symplectic Runge-Kutta type methods for Hamiltonian ordinary differential equations, and discuss the multi-symplecticity of Runge-Kutta type methods, including partitioned Runge-Kutta methods and Nystroem methods, etc, for Hamiltonian partial differential equations.
   We give some explicit multi-symplectic Runge-Kutta type methods for Hamiltonian wave equations. We present some applications of these methods to Dirac equations and Schroedinger equations in quantum physics, and investigate conservative properties of energy and momentum for these methods.

 

  Place:      :  

Lecture Room B

National Center for Theoretical Sciences
4th Floor, The 3rd General Building,

National Tsing Hua University