A structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Fisher-KPP equation

DOI10.1007/S00211-020-01136-WzbMATH Open1452.65225arXiv1903.04212OpenAlexW3044332518MaRDI QIDQ2201086FDOQ2201086

Ilaria Perugia, Marcel Braukhoff, Ansgar Jüngel, Francesca Bonizzoni

Publication date: 25 September 2020

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

Abstract: An implicit Euler discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov (Fisher-KPP) equation for population densities with no-flux boundary conditions is suggested and analyzed. Using an exponential variable transformation, the numerical scheme automatically preserves the positivity of the discrete solution. A discrete entropy inequality is derived, and the exponential time decay of the discrete density to the stable steady state in the L1 norm is proved if the initial entropy is smaller than the measure of the domain. The discrete solution is proved to converge in the L2 norm to the unique strong solution to the time-discrete Fisher-KPP equation as the mesh size tends to zero. Numerical experiments in one space dimension illustrate the theoretical results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04212

zbMATH Keywords

Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov equationimplicit Euler discontinuous Galerkin scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Strong solutions to PDEs (35D35) Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) 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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