Zhimin Zhang

## Institution:

Wayne State University and Beijing Computational Science Research Center

## Time:

Friday, May 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

## Location:

RH 306

We investigate efficient numerical methods for nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. Three polynomial spectral methods (including spectral Galerkin, Petrov-Galerkin, and collocation methods). Our main results include the energy and symplectic structure preserving properties and error estimates. We prove that the spectral Petrov-Galerkin method preserves the energy exactly and both the spectral Gauss collocation and spectral Galerkin methods are energy conserving up to spectral accuracy. While it is well known that collocation at Gauss points preserves symplectic structure, we prove that the Petrov-Galerkin method preserves the symplectic structure up to a Gauss quadrature error and the spectral Galerkin method preserves the symplectic structure to spectral accuracy. Furthermore, we prove that all three methods converge exponentially (with respect to the polynomial degree) under sufficient regularity assumption. All these aforementioned properties make our methods possible to simulate the long time behavior of the Hamiltonian system. Numerical experiments indicate that our algorithms are efficient.