Finite volume schemes for multilayer diffusion

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2018.06.041MaRDI QIDQ1789706zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nathan G. March, Elliot J. Carr

Publication date 10 October 2018

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10052

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume schemeGershgorin circle theoreminterface conditionsmultilayer diffusionstability and convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08)

Abstract: This paper focusses on finite volume schemes for solving multilayer diffusion problems. We develop a finite volume method that addresses a deficiency of recently proposed finite volume/difference methods, which consider only a limited number of interface conditions and do not carry out stability or convergence analysis. Our method also retains second order accuracy in space while preserving the tridiagonal matrix structure of the classical single-layer discretisation. Stability and convergence analysis of the new finite volume method is presented for each of the three classical time discretisation methods: forward Euler, backward Euler and Crank-Nicolson. We prove that both the backward Euler and Crank-Nicolson schemes are always unconditionally stable. The key contribution of the work is the presentation of a set of sufficient stability conditions for the forward Euler scheme. Here, we find that to ensure stability of the forward Euler scheme it is not sufficient that the time step $au$ satisfies the classical constraint of $auleq{h}_i^2/(2D_i)$ in each layer (where $D_i$ is the diffusivity and $h_i$ is the grid spacing in the $i$th layer) as more restrictive conditions can arise due to the interface conditions. The paper concludes with some numerical examples that demonstrate application of the new finite volume method, with the results presented in excellent agreement with the theoretical analysis.

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