A Stabilized Trace Finite Element Method for Partial Differential Equations on Evolving Surfaces

DOI10.1137/17M1148633zbMath1402.65112arXiv1709.07117OpenAlexW2963486664WikidataQ129579321 ScholiaQ129579321MaRDI QIDQ4572016

Christoph Lehrenfeld, Xianmin Xu, Maxim A. Olshanskii

Publication date: 4 July 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study a numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. The numerical method is built on the stabilized trace finite element method (TraceFEM) for the spatial discretization and finite differences for the time discretization. The TraceFEM uses a stationary background mesh, which can be chosen independent of time and the position of the surface. The stabilization ensures well-conditioning of the algebraic systems and defines a regular extension of the solution from the surface to its volumetric neighborhood. Having such an extension is essential for the numerical method to be well-defined. The paper proves numerical stability and optimal order error estimates for the case of simplicial background meshes and finite element spaces of order $mge1$. For the algebraic condition numbers of the resulting systems we prove estimates, which are independent of the position of the interface. The method allows that the surface and its evolution are given implicitly with the help of an indicator function. Results of numerical experiments for a set of 2D evolving surfaces are provided.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07117

zbMATH Keywords

error estimatesnumerical experimentsindicator functionspectral condition numbersurface PDEalgebraic stabilitytransport-diffusion equationevolving surfacefully discrete method with TraceFEM and BDFsemidiscrete method using BDFstationary background mesh

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Numerical solution of discretized equations for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M22)

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