Iterative linearisation schemes for doubly degenerate parabolic equations

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-96415-7_3zbMATH Open1427.65237arXiv1801.00846OpenAlexW2908196371MaRDI QIDQ2008652FDOQ2008652

Authors: Jakub Wiktor Both, K. Kumar, J. M. Nordbotten, I. S. Pop, F. A. Radu 

Publication date: 26 November 2019

Abstract: Mathematical models for flow and reactive transport in porous media often involve non-linear, degenerate parabolic equations. Their solutions have low regularity, and therefore lower order schemes are used for the numerical approximation. Here the backward Euler method is combined with a mixed finite element method scheme, which results in a stable and locally mass-conservative scheme. At the same time, at each time step one has to solve a non-linear algebraic system, for which linear iterations are needed. Finding robust and convergent ones is particularly challenging here, since both slow and fast diffusion cases are allowed. Commonly used schemes, like Newton and Picard iterations, are defined either for non-degenerate problems, or after regularising the problem in the case of degenerate ones. Convergence is guaranteed only if the initial guess is sufficiently close to the solution, which translates into severe restrictions on the time step. Here we discuss a linear iterative scheme which builds on the $L$-scheme, and does not employ any regularisation. We prove its rigourous convergence, which is obtained for mild restrictions on the time step. Finally, we give numerical results confirming the theoretical ones, and compare the behaviour of the scheme with other schemes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00846

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Numerical solutions of ill-posed problems in abstract spaces; regularization (65J20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

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