Heat-flow problems across fractal mixtures: regularity results of the solutions and numerical approximation. (Q2249878)

The paper is concerned with a parabolic transmission problem with Ventcel's-type boundary conditions on a prefractal mixture Koch interface. For the rectangular domain \(\Omega =(0,1)\times (-1,1)\) the systems \(\{\Omega_n^i\}\), \(i=1,2\), and \(\{K_n\}\) of prefractal domains and curves, respectively, are introduced. The transmission problem has the form \[ \begin{aligned} &\frac {du_n(t,P)}{dt}-\Delta u_n(t,P)=f(t,P)\;\text{ in }\;[0,T]\times \Omega_n^i,\;i=1,\,2;\\ &\frac {du_n}{dt}-\Delta_{K_n}u_n(t,P)= [\frac {\partial u_n(t,P)}{\partial \nu }]+f\;\text{on}\;[0,T]\times K_n,\\ &u_n(t,P)=0\;\text{ on }\;[0,T]\times \partial \Omega ,\;u_n^1(t,P)=u_n^2(t,P)\;\text{ on }\;[0,T]\times K_n,\\ &u_n(t,P)=0\;\text{ on }\;[0,T]\times \partial K_n,\;u_n(0,P)=0\;\text{ on }\;\Omega . \end{aligned} \] The problem is converted in an abstract form and solved using the theory of analytical semigroups. The numerical approximation is performed and optimal a priori estimates of the order of convergence are obtained.