Discontinuous Galerkin method for blow-up solutions of nonlinear wave equations

We develop and study an explicit time-space discrete discontinuous Galerkin finite element method to approximate the solution of one-dimensional nonlinear wave equations. We show that the numerical scheme is stable if a nonuniform time mesh is considered. We also investigate the blow-up phenomena and we prove that under weak convergence assumptions, the numerical blow-up time tends toward the theoretical one. The validity of our results is confirmed throughout several examples and benchmarks.