Linearly implicit exponential integrators for damped Hamiltonian PDEs

Abstract: Structure-preserving linearly implicit exponential integrators are constructed for Hamiltonian partial differential equations with linear constant damping. Linearly implicit integrators are derived by polarizing the polynomial terms of the Hamiltonian function and portioning out the nonlinearly of consecutive time steps. They require only a solution of one linear system at each time step. Therefore they are computationally more advantageous than implicit integrators. We also construct an exponential version of the well-known one-step Kahan's method by polarizing the quadratic vector field. These integrators are applied to one-dimensional damped Burger's, Korteweg-de-Vries, and nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations. Preservation of the dissipation rate of linear and quadratic conformal invariants and the Hamiltonian is illustrated by numerical experiments.