NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR A LOCALLY DAMPED WAVE EQUATION

M. A. Rincon; M. I. M. Copetti

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M. A. Rincon, M. I. M. Copetti. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR A LOCALLY DAMPED WAVE EQUATION[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2013, 3(2): 169-182. doi: 10.11948/2013013

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M. A. Rincon, M. I. M. Copetti. NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR A LOCALLY DAMPED WAVE EQUATION[J]. Journal of Applied Analysis & Computation, 2013, 3(2): 169-182. doi: 10.11948/2013013

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR A LOCALLY DAMPED WAVE EQUATION

1 Departamento de Ciêencia da Computação, Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;
2 Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil

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Abstract

Abstract

We consider a semi-discrete finite element formulation with artificial viscosity for the numerical approximation of a problem that models the damped vibrations of a string with fixed ends. The damping coefficient depends on the spatial variable and is effective only in a sub-interval of the domain. For this scheme, the energy of semi-discrete solutions decays exponentially and uniformly with respect to the mesh parameter to zero. We also introduce an implicit in time discretization. Error estimates for the semidiscrete and fully discrete schemes in the energy norm are provided and numerical experiments performed.
- Damped wave equation /
- artificial viscosity /
- finite element method /
- error estimate /
- numerical simulations
MSC: 35L05;65M15;65M60

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