Special Session 9: Stochastic Analysis and Large Scale Interacting Systems

Convergence of a finite-volume scheme for a heat equation with multiplicative Lipschitz noise

Kerstin Schmitz
University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany
Co-Author(s):    Caroline Bauzet, Flore Nabet, Aleksandra Zimmermann
Abstract:
We study an approximation by a finite-volume scheme in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time for a stochastic heat equation with convection and a multiplicative Lipschitz noise. In the passage to the limit the main difficulty is to identify the limit of the non-linear terms. In the special case of a heat equation without convection we use a stochastic compactness method based on Skorokhod's representation theorem to get first a martingale solution and then, by a pathwise uniqueness argument, the unique variational solution. In the general case with convection we are able to prove convergence of the scheme adapting well-known monotonicity methods to the stochastic framework.