Numerical analysis of a nonlocal parabolic problem resulting from thermistor problem

DOI10.1016/J.MATCOM.2007.08.013MaRDI QIDQ2479466zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi, Delfim F. M. Torres

Publication date 26 March 2008

Published in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0129

elliptic projection error estimates finite element method nonlocal parabolic equation semidiscretization

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M20) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

Abstract: We analyze the spatially semidiscrete piecewise linear finite element method for a nonlocal parabolic equation resulting from thermistor problem. Our approach is based on the properties of the elliptic projection defined by the bilinear form associated with the variational formulation of the finite element method. We assume minimal regularity of the exact solution that yields optimal order error estimate. The full discrete backward Euler method and the Crank-Nicolson-Galerkin scheme are also considered. Finally, a simple algorithm for solving the fully discrete problem is proposed.

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The authors study the spatially semidiscrete piecewise linear finite element method for the nonlinear parabolic problem \[ \partial u/\partial t - \nabla \cdot (k(u) \nabla u) = \lambda f(u) \bigg/ \biggl(\int_\Omega f(u)\,dx\biggr)^2 \] in \(\Omega \times (0,\bar{t})\), \(u = 0\) on \(\partial \Omega \times (0,\bar{t})\), \(u(0) = u_0\) in \(\Omega\), where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^2\), \(\bar{t}\) a positive number, \(f\) and \(k\) given functions from \(\mathbb{R}\) to \(\mathbb{R}\), \(\lambda >0\). This parabolic problem describes the temperature profile of a thermistor device with electrical resistivity \(f\). The full discrete backward Euler method and the Crank-Nicolson-Galerkin scheme are also considered. An algorithm for solving the fully discrete problem is proposed but no numerical results are presented.

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