Finite element numerical schemes for a chemo-attraction and consumption model (Q6145197)

Several nonlinear and decoupled numerical schemes have been developed and studied to approximate a chemo-attraction and consumption model, in one-and two dimensional domains. The schemes are designed to preserve the main properties of the continuous problem at the discrete level, such as (a) positivity, (b) dissipative energy law, and (c) estimation of the singular functional. The first linear and decoupled UV scheme has been designed using mass-lumping to maintain the positivity of the of the cell density. Next two schemes UV-ND and UV-NS are both designed to satisfy discrete versions of the singular functional by regularizing the singular potential. Schemes, UV-ND and UV-NS satisfy discrete versions of (a) and (c), whereas the scheme UVS satisfies a discrete version of (a) and (b). These schemes are compared with UV scheme and with the scheme UV-AD (an upwind Finite Volume scheme). The numerical results illustrate that the UVS scheme perform well in all numerical tests if the discretization parameters are small enough, although it is not able to exactly capture the decreasing evolution of the energy. The schemes (UV, UV-ND, UV-NS) perform well in the three proposed tests, whereas the schemes UV, UV-ND and UV-NS performs much better than UV-AD, because schemes UV, UV-ND and UV-NS show second order convergence for all the unknowns, while UV-AD achieves only first order