Defect Subspaces and Localized Instabilities in Cut-Cell Finite-Volume Operators

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2607.28808MaRDI QIDQ7284539arXivFDO

Authors Justo E. Karell

Publication date 30 July 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr The paper characterizes the spectral structure of cut-cell instability in explicit finite-volume methods and derives a minimum SRD blending parameter per cut cell computable from local mesh geometry, yielding a stability criterion preventing crashes with no additional time-stepping or global matrix assembly. This resolves a long-standing challenge in practical finite volume simulation.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.28808

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

arXiv classification

math.NA

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