UNIFORM ERROR BOUNDS OF A CONSERVATIVE COMPACT FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR THE QUANTUM ZAKHAROV SYSTEM IN THE SUBSONIC LIMIT REGIME

In this paper, we consider a uniformly accurate compact finite difference method to solve the quantum Zakharov system (QZS) with a dimensionless parameter 0 < epsilon <= 1, which is inversely proportional to the acoustic speed. In the subsonic limit regime, i.e., when 0 < epsilon << 1, the solution of QZS propagates rapidly oscillatory initial layers in time, and this brings significant difficulties in devising numerical algorithm and establishing their error estimates, especially as 0 < epsilon << 1. The solvability, the mass and energy conservation laws of the scheme are also discussed. Based on the cut-off technique and energy method, we rigorously analyze two independent error estimates for the well-prepared and ill-prepared initial data, respectively, which are uniform in both time and space for epsilon is an element of (0, 1] and optimal at the fourth order in space. Numerical results are reported to verify the error behavior.

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This paper proposes a uniformly accurate compact finite difference method to solve the quantum Zakharov system with a dimensionless parameter. The method considers the oscillatory initial layers and establishes error estimates that are uniform in both time and space. The numerical results verify the effectiveness of the method.