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A new method for solving numerically stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiple scales is presented. The method combines a spectral method with the heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM) presented in [W. E, D. Liu, E. Vanden-Eijnden, Analysis of multiscale methods for stochastic differential equations, Commun. Pure Appl. Math., 58(11) (2005) 1544-1585]. The class of problems that we consider are SPDEs with quadratic nonlinearities that were studied in [D. Blomker, M. Hairer, G.A. Pavliotis, Multiscale analysis for stochastic partial differential equations with quadratic nonlinearities, Nonlinearity, 20(7) (2007) 1721-1744]. For such SPDEs an amplitude equation which describes the effective dynamics at long time scales can be rigorously derived for both advective and diffusive time scales. Our method, based on micro and macro solvers, allows to capture numerically the amplitude equation accurately at a cost independent of the small scales in the problem. Numerical experiments illustrate the behavior of the proposed method. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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The motivation for developing structure-preserving algorithms for special classes of problems originates independently in such diverse areas of research as astronomy, molecular dynamics, mechanics, control theory, theoretical physics and numerical analysis, with important contributions from other areas of both applied and pure mathematics. Moreover, it turns out that preservation of geometric properties of the flow not only produces an improved qualitative behaviour, but also allows for a significantly more accurate long-time integration than with general-purpose methods.
In addition to the construction of geometric integrators, an important aspect of geometric integration is the light it sheds on the relationship between geometric properties of a numerical method and favourable error propagation in long-time integration. A very successful organising principle is backward error analysis, whereby the numerical one-step map is interpreted as (almost) the flow of a modified differential equation. In this way, geometric properties of the numerical integrator translate seamlessly into structure preservation on the level of the modified equation. Much insight and rigourous error estimates over long time intervals can then be obtained by combining backward error analysis with the KAM theory and related perturbation theories for Hamiltonian and reversible systems. While this approach has been very successful for ordinary differential equations, much less is currently known about highly oscillatory systems and geometric integrators for partial differential equations.
Geometric numerical integration has been an active interdisciplinary research area since the last decade. Although the subject is in a lively phase of intensive development, the results so far are substantive and they impact on a wide range of application areas and on our understanding of core issues in computational mathematics. This is evidenced by the monographs \cite{HLW:GNI2002,LR:SMH2004}.