Discretisation of Global Attractors for Lattice Dynamical Systems

The existence of numerical attractors for lattice dynamical systems is established, where the implicit Euler scheme is used for time discretisation. Infinite dimensional discrete lattice systems as well as their finite dimensional truncations are considered. It is shown that the finite dimensional numerical attractors converge upper semicontinuously to the global attractor of the original lattice model as the discretisation step size tends to zero.