A p-adaptive local discontinuous Galerkin level set method for Willmore flow

DOI10.1007/S10915-018-0656-3zbMATH Open1397.65187arXiv1603.04260OpenAlexW2963650578MaRDI QIDQ1669994FDOQ1669994

Authors: Ruihan Guo, Francis Filbet 

Publication date: 4 September 2018

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The level set method is often used to capture interface behavior in two or three dimensions. In this paper, we present a combination of local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method and level set method for simulating Willmore flow. The LDG scheme is energy stable and mass conservative, which are good properties comparing with other numerical methods. In addition, to enhance the efficiency of the proposed LDG scheme and level set method, we employ a p-adaptive local discontinuous Galerkin technique, which applies high order polynomial approximations around the zero level set and low order ones away from the zero level set. A major advantage of the level set method is that the topological changes are well defined and easily performed. In particular, given the stiffness of Willmore flow, a high order semi-implicit Runge-Kutta method is employed for time discretization, which allows larger time step. The equations at the implicit time level are linear, we demonstrate an efficient and practical multi-grid solver to solve the equations. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the combination of the LDG scheme and level set method provides an efficient and practical approach when simulating the Willmore flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04260

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zbMATH Keywords

level set methodlocal discontinuous Galerkin methodsemi-implicit schemeWillmore flow\(p\)-adaptive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05)

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