Adaptive moving mesh methods (Q604480)

This advanced textbook on adaptive mesh generation and moving mesh methods for the numerical solution of time-dependent partial differential equations (mostly of parabolic type) is aimed at graduate students and researchers in the field of scientific computing and numerical analysis. A general framework and theory for adaptive mesh generation is presented together with the basic components of moving mesh methods including their application to different physical problems, e.g. for conservation laws. The book consists of seven chapters and includes two appendices and an exhaustive list of references. The concept of moving mesh techniques is introduced in chapter one for one space dimension. Chapter two provides a detailed treatment of the mesh movement strategy, the discretization of moving meshes and the overall solution procedure. Optimality properties of equidistributing meshes and coordinate transforms are discussed. Multidimensional adaptivity issues are discussed and expanded in the following chapters, which are much more complex. For higher spatial dimensions transformations between physical space and computational space becomes necessary, as discussed in chapter three. Steady state mesh adaption strategies in multidimensions are exposed in chapters four and five including monitoring functions based on interpolation theory. Specific mesh adaption strategies are presented in the final two chapters, i.e., respectively variational methods and velocity-based methods. At the end of each chapter, bibliographical notes discussing the developments of the different fields are given, and a set of exercises is proposed. The book is illustrated with numerous examples, which have been implemented in Matlab. The corresponding codes are available on the first author's home page. The appendices deal with Sobolev spaces and the arithmetic-mean inequality and Jensen's inequality.