Geometric error of finite volume schemes for conservation laws on evolving surfaces (Q471199)

The authors consider the initial value problem on a family of closed smooth surfaces \(\Gamma (t)\subset \mathbb R^{3}\) evolving in the time interval \([0,T]\) for the function \( u: G_{T}:=\cup_{t\in[0,T]}\Gamma (t)\times {t} \rightarrow \mathbb R \) \[ \dot{u}+ u \nabla_{\Gamma}v + \nabla_{\Gamma}f(u,\cdot,\cdot)=0 \quad \text{in} \quad G_{\Gamma}, \] \[ u(\cdot,0)= u_{0}\quad \text{on} \quad\Gamma(0), \] where \(v\) is the velocity of the material point on the surface. The finite volume method (based on the triangulation) is used to approximately solving this problem. Two approximate schemes are constructed: one scheme is is defined on the curved surface and the second scheme defined on a polyhedron approximating the surface. Respectively, the solutions are denoted by \(u^{h}\) and \(u^{-h}\). The difference between the solutions satisfies the inequality \[ \|u^{h} - u^{-h}\|_{L^{1}(\Gamma(t))}\leq Ch \] for some constant \(C\) with the fulfilment of the condition \(t_{n+1}-t_{n}\leq \frac{\alpha^{2}h}{8L}\), where \(L\) is the Lipschitz constant.