A Novel Class of Energy-Preserving Runge-Kutta Methods for the Korteweg-de Vries Equation

In this paper, we present a quadratic auxiliary variable approach to develop a new class of energy-preserving Runge-Kutta methods for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The quadratic auxiliary variable approach is first proposed to reformulate the original model into an equivalent system, which transforms the energy conservation law of the Korteweg-de Vries equation into two quadratic invariants of the reformulated system. Then the symplectic Runge-Kutta methods are directly employed for the reformulated model to arrive at a new kind of time semi-discrete schemes for the original problem. Under consistent initial conditions, the proposed methods are rigorously proved to maintain the original energy conservation law of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. In addition, the Fourier pseudo-spectral method is used for spatial discretization, resulting in fully discrete energy-preserving schemes. To implement the proposed methods effectively, we present a very efficient iterative technique, which not only greatly saves the calculation cost, but also achieves the purpose of practically preserving structure. Ample numerical results are addressed to confirm the expected order of accuracy, conservative property and efficiency of the proposed algorithms.

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In this paper, a quadratic auxiliary variable approach is proposed to develop energy-preserving Runge-Kutta methods for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The approach reformulates the original model into an equivalent system and employs symplectic Runge-Kutta methods to obtain a new kind of time semi-discrete schemes. The proposed methods effectively preserve the energy conservation law and achieve efficient calculation with a iterative technique.