Results on the diffusion equation with rough coefficients

DOI10.1137/080738520zbMATH Open1215.35124arXiv0810.3427OpenAlexW2010217577MaRDI QIDQ3078587FDOQ3078587

Authors: Burak Aksoylu, Horst Reinhard Beyer 

Publication date: 28 February 2011

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the behaviour of the solutions of the stationary diffusion equation as a function of a possibly rough ($L^{infty}$-) diffusivity. This includes the boundary behaviour of the solution maps, associating to each diffusivity the solution corresponding to some fixed source function, when the diffusivity approaches infinite values in parts of the medium. In $n$-dimensions, $ngeq1$, by assuming a weak notion of convergence on the set of diffusivities, we prove the strong sequential continuity of the solution maps. In 1-dimension, we prove a stronger result, i.e., the unique extendability of the map of solution operators, associating to each diffusivity the corresponding solution operator, to a sequentially continuous map in the operator norm on a set containing `diffusivities' assuming infinite values in parts of the medium. In this case, we also give explicit estimates on the convergence behaviour of the map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3427

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zbMATH Keywords

preconditioningdiffusion equationmixed formulationdiffusion operatorrough coefficientsfirst-order formulationdependence on diffusivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Continuation and prolongation of solutions to PDEs (35B60) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) Diffusion (76R50) Numerical solutions to equations with linear operators (65J10)

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