Convergence of finite elements on an evolving surface driven by diffusion on the surface

DOI10.1007/S00211-017-0888-4zbMATH Open1377.65131arXiv1607.07170OpenAlexW2964245173MaRDI QIDQ1679211FDOQ1679211

Authors: Balázs Kovács, Buyang Li, Christian Lubich, Christian A. Power Guerra 

Publication date: 8 November 2017

Published in: Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a parabolic surface partial differential equation coupled to surface evolution, convergence of the spatial semidiscretization is studied in this paper. The velocity of the evolving surface is not given explicitly, but depends on the solution of the parabolic equation on the surface. Various velocity laws are considered: elliptic regularization of a direct pointwise coupling, a regularized mean curvature flow and a dynamic velocity law. A novel stability and convergence analysis for evolving surface finite elements for the coupled problem of surface diffusion and surface evolution is developed. The stability analysis works with the matrix-vector formulation of the method and does not use geometric arguments. The geometry enters only into the consistency estimates. Numerical experiments complement the theoretical results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07170

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zbMATH Keywords

regularizationconvergencestabilityfinite element methodnumerical experimentsurface parabolic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

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