Strong 1.5 order scheme for second-order stochastic differential equations without Levy area

Abstract

In this work, a finite difference scheme combined with a truncated spectral expansion of white noise is presented for solving second-order stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with additive white noise. Consistency of the approximate equation, which is obtained by replacing the white noise with its spectral truncation, is considered in mean-square sense. Based on it, a full discrete scheme is constructed and the mean-square convergence order of numerical solution is investigated. Numerical examples show that the presented scheme is of 1.5-order convergence in mean-square sense, which verifies the theoretical findings and is a half order higher than converting the equation to a two-dimensional system with additive white noise and using the Euler-Maruyama scheme to solve the resulting problem. It is also illustrated that the piecewise version of the spectral approximation of white noise plus proper time discretization works well for long-time simulation.