Strong Convergence Rates for a Full Discretization of Stochastic Wave Equation with Nonlinear Damping

Journal article, 2025

The paper establishes the strong convergence rates of a spatio-temporal full discretization of the stochastic wave equation with nonlinear damping in dimension one and two. We discretize the SPDE by applying a spectral Galerkin method in space and a modified implicit exponential Euler scheme in time. The presence of the super-linearly growing damping in the underlying model brings challenges into the error analysis. To address these difficulties, we first achieve upper mean-square error bounds, and then obtain mean-square convergence rates of the considered numerical solution. This is done without requiring the moment bounds of the full approximations. The main result shows that, in dimension one, the scheme admits a convergence rate of order 12 in space and order 1 in time. In dimension two, the error analysis is more subtle and can be done at the expense of an order reduction due to an infinitesimal factor. Numerical experiments are performed and confirm our theoretical findings.