Two novel linear-implicit momentum-conserving schemes for the fractional Korteweg-de Vries equation

Abstract We propose two conservative linear-implicit schemes for the space fractional Korteweg-de Vries (fKdV) equation. One is the linear-implicit Crank–Nicolson scheme and the other is the linear-implicit leap-frog scheme. In order to obtain a high order discretization in the space direction, we adopt the Fourier pseudospectral method. The Crank–Nicolson scheme and leap-frog scheme are used for temporal discretization, and those two schemes are efficient in practical computations because of their linear property. Furthermore, we analyse the uniqueness, boundness, convergence of the two schemes. Numerical experiments are presented to validate the theoretical analysis.