Multisymplecticity of the centred box scheme for a class of hamiltonian PDEs and an application to quasi-periodically solitary waves

Abstract

In this paper, the multisymplectic integrator for a class of Hamiltonian PDEs depending explicitly on time and spatial variables (nonautonomous Hamiltonian PDEs) is defined, and the multisymplecticity of the centred box scheme for this kind of Hamiltonian PDEs is proven. We give an application of the result to (periodic) quasi-periodic variable coefficient Korteweg-de Vries (qpKdV) equation, which is known to have a physical application in the propagation of surface waves in straits or channels with quasi-periodic varying depth and width in the time direction. We derive a multisymplectic scheme for a qpKdV equation in terms of the multisymplecticity of the centred box scheme, then make use of it to simulate numerically the (periodically) quasi-periodically solitary wave of the equation. Numerical experiments are presented in illustration of the multisymplectic scheme of qpKdV equation stemming the centred box discretization.