CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS OF NONCONFORMING QUADRILATERAL FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR NONLINEAR COUPLED SCHRODINGER-HELMHOLTZ EQUATIONS

The focus of this paper is on two novel linearized Crank-Nicolson schemes with nonconforming quadrilateral finite element methods(FEMs)for the nonlinear coupled Schrodinger-Helmholtz equations.Optimal L^(2) and H^(1) estimates of orders O(h^(2)+τ^(2))and O(h^(2)+τ^(2))are derived respectively without any grid-ratio condition through the following two keys.One is that a time-discrete system is introduced to split the error into the temporal error and the spatial error,which leads to optimal temporal error estimates of order O(τ^(2))in L^(2) and the broken H^(1)-norms,as well as the uniform boundness of numerical solutions in L^(∞) norm.The other is that a novel projection is utilized,which can iron out the difficulty of the existence of the consistency errors.This leads to derive optimal spatial error estimates of orders O(h^(2))in L^(2)-norm and O(h)in the broken H^(1)-norm under the H^(2) regularity of the solutions for the time-discrete system.At last,two numerical examples are provided to confirm the theoretical analysis.Here,h is the subdivision parameter,and τ is the time step.