Fractional elliptic quasi-variational inequalities: theory and numerics

DOI10.4171/IFB/395MaRDI QIDQ1650256zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Harbir Antil, Carlos N. Rautenberg

Publication date 2 July 2018

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07001

zbMATH Keywords

Caffarelli-Silvestre and stinga-torrea extensionfinite element methodfixed point algorithmfractional derivativesfractional diffusionfree boundary problemMosco convergencequasivariational inequalityQVIweighted Sobolev spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular elliptic equations (35J75) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

Abstract: This paper introduces an elliptic quasi-variational inequality (QVI) problem class with fractional diffusion of order $sin(0,1)$, studies existence and uniqueness of solutions and develops a solution algorithm. As the fractional diffusion prohibits the use of standard tools to approximate the QVI, instead we realize it as a Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a problem posed on a semi-infinite cylinder. We first study existence and uniqueness of solutions for this extended QVI and then transfer the results to the fractional QVI: This introduces a new paradigm in the field of fractional QVIs. Further, we truncate the semi-infinite cylinder and show that the solution to the truncated problem converges to the solution of the extended problem, under fairly mild assumptions, as the truncation parameter $au$ tends to infinity. Since the constraint set changes with the solution, we develop an argument using Mosco convergence. We state an algorithm to solve the truncated problem and show its convergence in function space. Finally, we conclude with several illustrative numerical examples.

Review text

Summary: This paper introduces an elliptic quasi-variational inequality (QVI) problem class with fractional diffusion of order \(s \in (0, 1)\), studies existence and uniqueness of solutions and develops a solution algorithm. As the fractional diffusion prohibits the use of standard tools to approximate the QVI, instead we realize it as a Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a problem posed on a semi-infinite cylinder. We first study existence and uniqueness of solutions for this extended QVI and then transfer the results to the fractional QVI: This introduces a new paradigm in the field of fractional QVIs. Further, we truncate the semi-infinite cylinder and show that the solution to the truncated problem converges to the solution of the extended problem, under fairly mild assumptions, as the truncation parameter tends to infinity. Since the constraint set changes with the solution, we develop an argument using Mosco convergence. We state an algorithm to solve the truncated problem and show its convergence in function space. Finally, we conclude with several illustrative numerical examples.

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