Adaptive time-stepping for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations with non-Lipschitz drift

Abstract

We introduce an explicit, adaptive time-stepping scheme for the simulation of SPDEs with one-sided Lipschitz drift coefficients. Strong convergence rates are proven for the full space-time discretisation with multiplicative trace-class noise by considering the space and time discretisation separately. Adapting the time-step size to ensure strong convergence is shown numerically to produce more accurate solutions when compared to alternative fixed time-stepping strategies for the same computational effort.

32 pages, 4 figures