In this work, we numerically investigate the influence of a homogeneous noi
se on the evolution of solitons for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Our num
erical method is based on finite elements and least-squares. We present num
erical experiments for different values of noise amplitude and describe dif
ferent types of behaviours. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reser
ved.