A Local Discontinuous Galerkin method for the modified Camassa--Holm equation

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the modified Camassa-Holm (mCH) equation that contains cubic nonlinearity and high-order derivative terms. Energy conservation and stability are obtained using the conservative and dissipative fluxes, respectively. The error estimate of the semi-discrete scheme is also established. Numerical examples verify that our theoretical findings are sharp and the proposed LDG method is capable of capturing the peakon solution of the mCH equation.

28 pages, 14 figures