Parameter dependent finite element analysis for ferronematics solutions

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2021.10.027MaRDI QIDQ6371075arXivFDO

Authors Ruma Rani Maity, Apala Majumdar, Neela Nataraj

Publication date 23 June 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CAMWA.2021.10.027

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Crystalline structure (74E15) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Liquid crystals (76A15) Suspensions (76T20) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

arXiv classification

cs.NAmath.NA

Abstract: This paper focuses on the analysis of a free energy functional, that models a dilute suspension of magnetic nanoparticles in a two-dimensional nematic well. The {it first part} of the article is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of global energy minimizers in the limit of vanishing elastic constant, $ellightarrow0$ where the re-scaled elastic constant $ell$ is inversely proportional to the domain area. The first results concern the strong $H^1$-convergence and a $ell$-independent $H^2$-bound for the global minimizers on smooth bounded 2D domains, with smooth boundary and topologically trivial Dirichlet conditions. The {it second part} focuses on the discrete approximation of regular solutions of the corresponding non-linear system of partial differential equations with cubic non-linearity and non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We establish (i) the existence and local uniqueness of the discrete solutions using fixed point argument, (ii) a best approximation result in energy norm, (iii) error estimates in the energy and $L^2$ norms with $ell$- discretization parameter dependency for the conforming finite element method. Finally, the theoretical results are complemented by numerical experiments on the discrete solution profiles, the numerical convergence rates that corroborates the theoretical estimates, followed by plots that illustrate the dependence of the discretization parameter on $ell$.

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