Strang splitting method for semilinear parabolic problems with inhomogeneous boundary conditions: a correction based on the flow of the nonlinearity

DOI10.1137/19M1257081zbMATH Open1447.65058arXiv1904.08826OpenAlexW3039896695MaRDI QIDQ3300862FDOQ3300862

Authors: Guillaume Bertoli, Gilles Vilmart 

Publication date: 30 July 2020

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Strang splitting method, formally of order two, can suffer from order reduction when applied to semilinear parabolic problems with inhomogeneous boundary conditions. The recent work [L .Einkemmer and A. Ostermann. Overcoming order reduction in diffusion-reaction splitting. Part 1. Dirichlet boundary conditions. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 37, 2015. Part 2: Oblique boundary conditions, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 38, 2016] introduces a modification of the method to avoid the reduction of order based on the nonlinearity. In this paper we introduce a new correction constructed directly from the flow of the nonlinearity and which requires no evaluation of the source term or its derivatives. The goal is twofold. One, this new modification requires only one evaluation of the diffusion flow and one evaluation of the source term flow at each step of the algorithm and it reduces the computational effort to construct the correction. Second, numerical experiments suggest it is well suited in the case where the nonlinearity is stiff. We provide a convergence analysis of the method for a smooth nonlinearity and perform numerical experiments to illustrate the performances of the new approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08826

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zbMATH Keywords

order reductiondiffusion-reaction equationnonhomogeneous boundary conditionsStrang splittingstiff nonlinearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58) Numerical methods for stiff equations (65L04) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M20)

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Uses Software

• Algorithm 919
• phipm

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