On the performance of high‐order finite elements with respect to maximum principles and the nonnegative constraint for diffusion‐type equations

DOI10.1002/NME.4291zbMATH Open1253.65190arXiv1108.0952OpenAlexW2964204698MaRDI QIDQ4898006FDOQ4898006

Authors: G. S. Payette, K. B. Nakshatrala, Junuthula Narasimha Reddy 

Publication date: 29 December 2012

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to document the performance of $p$-refinement with respect to maximum principles and the non-negative constraint. The model problem is (steady-state) anisotropic diffusion with decay (which is a second-order elliptic partial differential equation). We considered the standard single-field formulation (which is based on the Galerkin formalism) and two least-squares-based mixed formulations. We have employed non-uniform Lagrange polynomials for altering the polynomial order in each element, and we have used $p=1,\mathrm{...},10$. It will be shown that the violation of the non-negative constraint will not vanish with $p$-refinement for anisotropic diffusion. We shall illustrate the performance of $p$-refinement using several representative problems. The intended outcome of the paper is twofold. Firstly, this study will caution the users of high-order approximations about its performance with respect to maximum principles and the non-negative constraint. Secondly, this study will help researchers to develop new methodologies for enforcing maximum principles and the non-negative constraint under high-order approximations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0952

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zbMATH Keywords

maximum principlesanisotropic diffusionhigh-order approximationsnonnegative constraintleast squares formulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Elliptic equations and elliptic systems (35J99)

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