Unconditionally optimal convergence of an energy-conserving and linearly implicit scheme for nonlinear wave equations

In this paper,we present and analyze an energy-conserving and linearly implicit scheme for solving the nonlinear wave equations.Optimal error estimates in time and superconvergent error estimates in space are established without certain time-step restrictions.The key is to estimate directly the solution bounds in the H-norm for both the nonlinear wave equation and the corresponding fully discrete scheme,while the previous investigations rely on the temporal-spatial error splitting approach.Numerical examples are presented to confirm energy-conserving properties,unconditional convergence and optimal error estimates,respectively,of the proposed fully discrete schemes.