A fictitious domain method with distributed Lagrange multiplier for parabolic problems with moving interfaces (Q520202)

The fictitious domain method with distributed Lagrange multipliers is applied for numerical solution of parabolic problems with moving interfaces and discontinuous viscosity coefficient. The fictitious domain weak form is shown to be equivalent to the standard weak form of the parabolic interface problem. The backward difference formula is used for the time discretization and the uniform well-posedness of the fictitious domain finite element discretization with distributed Lagrange multiplier is shown. Further, the convergence of the finite element approximations is shown. A subgrid integration technique is used in order to allow the fictitious domain finite element method to be performed on the triangular meshes without doing any interpolation between the authentic domain and the fictitious domain. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results, and demonstrate the good performances of the proposed schemes.