A numerical study of an Heaviside function driven degenerate diffusion equation

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2021.03.002MaRDI QIDQ6356722arXivFDO

Authors C. Alberini, R. Capitanelli, S. Finzi Vita

Publication date 22 December 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CAMWA.2021.03.002

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Variational inequalities (49J40) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10)

arXiv classification

cs.NAmath.APmath.NA

Abstract: We analyze a nonlinear degenerate parabolic problem whose diffusion coefficient is the Heaviside function of the distance of the solution itself from a given target function. We show that this model behaves as an evolutive variational inequality having the target as an obstacle: under suitable hypotheses, starting from an initial state above the target the solution evolves in time towards an asymptotic solution, eventually getting in contact with part of the target itself. We also study a finite difference approach to the solution of this problem, using the exact Heaviside function or a regular approximation of it, showing the results of some numerical tests.

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