Abstract

A third order of accuracy absolutely stable difference schemes is presented for nonlocal boundary value hyperbolic problem of the differential equations in a Hilbert space with self-adjoint positive definite operator . Stability estimates for solution of the difference scheme are established. In practice, one-dimensional hyperbolic equation with nonlocal boundary conditions is considered.

1. Introduction

In modeling several phenomena of physics, biology, and ecology mathematically, there often arise problems with nonlocal boundary conditions (see [15] and the references given therein). Nonlocal boundary value problems have been a major research area in the case when it is impossible to determine the boundary conditions of the unknown function. Over the last few decades, the study of nonlocal boundary value problems is of substantial contemporary interest (see, e.g., [614] and the references given therein).

We consider the nonlocal boundary value problem for hyperbolic equations in a Hilbert space with self-adjoint positive definite linear operator with domain .

A function is called a solution of problem (1) if the following conditions are satisfied.(i) is twice continuously differentiable on the segment . The derivatives at the endpoints of the segment are understood as the appropriate unilateral derivatives.(ii)The element belongs to for all and the function is continuous on the segment .(iii) satisfies the equations and the nonlocal boundary conditions (1).

Here, , and are smooth functions.

In the study of numerical methods for solving PDEs, stability is an important research area (see [627]). Many scientists work on difference schemes for hyperbolic partial differential equations, in which stability was established under the assumption that the magnitudes of the grid steps and with respect to the time and space variables are connected. This particularly means that when .

We are interested in studying high order of accuracy unconditionally stable difference schemes for hyperbolic PDEs.

In the present paper, third order of accuracy difference scheme generated by integer power of for approximately solving nonlocal boundary value problem (1) is presented. The stability estimates for solution of the difference scheme are established.

In [8], some results of this paper, without proof, were presented.

The well posedness of nonlocal boundary value problems for parabolic equations, elliptic equations, and equations of mixed types have been studied extensively by many scientists (see, e.g., [1114, 1932] and the references therein).

2. Third Order of Accuracy Difference Scheme Subject to Nonlocal Conditions

In this section, we obtain stability estimates for the solution of third order of accuracy difference scheme for numerical solution of nonlocal boundary value problem (1). Here, We study the stability of solutions of difference scheme (2) under the following assumption: We give a lemma that will be needed in the sequel which was presented in [18]. First, let us present the following operators: and its conjugate , and its conjugate , and its conjugate , and and its conjugate .

We consider the following operators: and its conjugate , and its conjugate .

Lemma 1. The following estimates hold:

Now let us give, without proof, the second lemma.

Lemma 2. The following estimates hold:

Throughout the section, for simplicity, we denote

Lemma 3. Suppose that assumption (4) holds. Then, the operator has an inverse . From symmetry and positivity properties of operator , the following estimate is satisfied:

Proof. Using the definitions of , estimates (11), and the following simple estimates, and the triangle inequality, we get where Since , the operator has a bounded inverse and Lemma 3 is proved.

Now, let us obtain formula for the solution of problem (2). Using the results of [18], one can obtain the following formula: for the solution of difference scheme Applying formula (19) and nonlocal boundary conditions one can write Using formulas in (22), we obtain

So, formulas (19) and (23) give a solution of problem (2).

Unfortunately, the estimates for , , and cannot be obtained under the conditions Nevertheless, we have the following theorem.

Theorem 4. Suppose that assumption (4) holds and , . Then, for solution of difference scheme (2), the following stability estimates hold: where does not depend on , , , , and , .

Proof. Using formulas in (23) and estimates (11), (12), and (14), we obtain
Applying to formulas in (23), we get Now, applying Abel’s formula to (23), we obtain the following formulas:
Next, let us obtain the estimates for and . First, applying to formula (28) and using estimates (11), (12), and (14) and the triangle inequality, one can obtain
Second, applying to formula (29) and using estimates (11), (12), and (14) and the triangle inequality, we get
Now, we will prove estimates (25). Using formula (19), estimates (11), (12), (26), and (27), and the triangle inequality, we obtain for any . Applying to (19), we get for . Now, applying Abel’s formula to (19), we have Applying to formula (34) and using estimates (11) and (12) and the triangle inequality, we obtain for . Theorem 4 is proved.

Note that the stability estimates obtained previously permit us to get the convergence estimate of difference scheme (2) under the smoothness property of solution (1). Actually, under the condition , we can obtain the third order of accuracy for the error of difference scheme (2). Since , this condition is satisfied under the given data , , , and .

Now, let us give application of this abstract result for nonlocal boundary value problem for hyperbolic equation. Problem (36) has a unique smooth solution , and the smooth functions , , and . This allows us to reduce mixed problem (36) to nonlocal boundary value problem (1) in a Hilbert space with a self-adjoint positive definite operator defined by (36).

The discretization of problem (36) is carried out in two steps. In the first step, let us define the grid space We introduce Hilbert space , , and of the grid functions defined on , and we assign the difference operator by the formula acting in the space of grid functions satisfying the conditions , .

With the help of , we arrive at the nonlocal boundary value problem for a system of ordinary differential equations.

In the second step, we replace problem (2) with difference scheme (40)

Theorem 5. Let and be sufficiently small numbers. Then, the solution of difference scheme (40) satisfies the following stability estimates: Here, does not depend on , and .

The proof of Theorem 5 is based on the proof of abstract Theorem 4 and the symmetry property of operator defined by (38).

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Professor Pavel E. Sobolevskii and reviewers for their helpful comments.