Analysis of the diffuse domain method for second order elliptic boundary value problems

DOI10.1007/S10208-015-9292-6MaRDI QIDQ2362284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Burger, Ole Løseth Elvetun, Matthias Schlottbom

Publication date 7 July 2017

Published in Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5641

zbMATH Keywords

diffuse domain methoddomain perturbationselliptic boundary value problemsweighted Sobolev spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Fictitious domain methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N85)

Abstract: The diffuse domain method for partial differential equations on complicated geometries recently received strong attention in particular from practitioners, but many fundamental issues in the analysis are still widely open. In this paper we study the diffuse domain method for approximating second order elliptic boundary value problems posed on bounded domains, and show convergence and rates of the approximations generated by the diffuse domain method to the solution of the original second order problem when complemented by Robin, Dirichlet or Neumann conditions. The main idea of the diffuse domain method is to relax these boundary conditions by introducing a family of phase-field functions such that the variational integrals of the original problem are replaced by a weighted average of integrals of perturbed domains. From an functional analytic point of view, the phase-field functions naturally lead to weighted Sobolev spaces for which we present trace and embedding results as well as various type of Poincar'e inequalities with constants independent of the domain perturbations. Our convergence analysis is carried out in such spaces as well, but allows to draw conclusions also about unweighted norms applied to restrictions on the original domain. Our convergence results are supported by numerical examples.

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