Stability and convergence of staggered Runge-Kutta schemes for semilinear wave equations

A staggered Runge-Kutta (staggered RK) scheme is the time integration Runge-Kutta type scheme based on staggered grid, which was proposed by Ghrist and Fornberg and Driscoll in 2000. Afterwords, Vewer presented efficiency of the scheme for linear and semilinear wave equations through numerical experiments. We study stability and convergence properties of this scheme for semilinear wave equations. In particular, we prove convergence of a fully discrete scheme obtained by applying the staggered RK scheme to the MOL approximation of the equation.