Galerkin methods for the Davey–Stewartson equations

Abstract

In this paper, we propose two Galerkin methods to investigate the evolution of the Davey–Stewartson equations. The extrapolated Crank–Nicolson scheme and decoupled semi-implicit multistep scheme are employed to increase the order of the time discrete accuracy, which only requires the solutions of a linear system at each time step. Four numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the features of the proposed numerical methods, such as the optimal convergence order, the conservation variable and the application in rogue waves.