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# Convergence of Numerical Schemes for the Solution of Parabolic Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

A. M. Davie and J. G. Gaines
Mathematics of Computation
Vol. 70, No. 233 (Jan., 2001), pp. 121-134
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2698927
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## Abstract

We consider the numerical solution of the stochastic partial differential equation $\partial u/ \partial t = \partial^2 u/ \partial x^2 + \sigma (u) \dot {W}(x, t)$, where Ẇ is space-time white noise, using finite differences. For this equation Gyongy has obtained an estimate of the rate of convergence for a simple scheme, based on integrals of Ẇ over a rectangular grid. We investigate the extent to which this order of convergence can be improved, and find that better approximations are possible for the case of additive noise (σ (u) = 1) if we wish to estimate space averages of the solution rather than pointwise estimates, or if we are permitted to generate other functionals of the noise. But for multiplicative noise (σ(u) = u) we show that no such improvements are possible.

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