Maximum principle in linear finite element approximations of anisotropic diffusion-convection-reaction problems

DOI10.1007/S00211-013-0595-8MaRDI QIDQ2510403zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Changna Lu, Weizhang Huang, Jianxian Qiu

Publication date 1 August 2014

Published in Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3564

zbMATH Keywords

arbitrary dimensionDirichlet boundary value problemdiscrete maximum principlefinite element methodlinear elliptic second-order partial differential equationnumerical examplesimplicial meshesvariable coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50)

Abstract: A mesh condition is developed for linear finite element approximations of anisotropic diffusion-convection-reaction problems to satisfy a discrete maximum principle. Loosely speaking, the condition requires that the mesh be simplicial and $mathcalO(|Vb{|}_{i}nftyh+|c{|}_{i}nfty{h}^2)$-nonobtuse when the dihedral angles are measured in the metric specified by the inverse of the diffusion matrix, where $h$ denotes the mesh size and $Vb$ and $c$ are the coefficients of the convection and reaction terms. In two dimensions, the condition can be replaced by a weaker mesh condition (an $mathcalO(|Vb{|}_{i}nftyh+|c{|}_{i}nfty{h}^2)$ perturbation of a generalized Delaunay condition). These results include many existing mesh conditions as special cases. Numerical results are presented to verify the theoretical findings.

Review text

The paper considers an old problem of the discrete maximum principle for the finite element method and generalizes previous results. The main contribution is the analysis of the heterogeneous and anisotropic diffusion together with the heterogeneous convection and reaction terms. The authors study a linear elliptic second-order partial differential equation with variable coefficients in arbitrary space dimension. They discretize the corresponding Dirichlet boundary value problem by standard linear simplicial finite elements. The main result is a sufficient condition on the geometry and size of the mesh that guarantees the validity of the discrete maximum principle. The paper is concluded by several numerical examples, where the derived condition is used to generate and to refine triangular meshes that yield the discrete maximum principle and eliminate the overshoots and undershoots in convection-diffusion problems with anisotropic diffusion.

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