Calculus on Surfaces with General Closest Point Functions

DOI10.1137/120865537zbMATH Open1276.65052arXiv1202.3001OpenAlexW3100925412MaRDI QIDQ4907161FDOQ4907161

Authors: Thomas März, Colin B. Macdonald 

Publication date: 4 March 2013

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

Abstract: The Closest Point Method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) posed on surfaces was recently introduced by Ruuth and Merriman [J. Comput. Phys. 2008] and successfully applied to a variety of surface PDEs. In this paper we study the theoretical foundations of this method. The main idea is that surface differentials of a surface function can be replaced with Cartesian differentials of its closest point extension, i.e., its composition with a closest point function. We introduce a general class of these closest point functions (a subset of differentiable retractions), show that these are exactly the functions necessary to satisfy the above idea, and give a geometric characterization of this class. Finally, we construct some closest point functions and demonstrate their effectiveness numerically on surface PDEs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3001

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zbMATH Keywords

Laplace-Beltrami operatorclosest point methodimplicit surfaceretractionsCartesian differentialssurface intrinsic differential operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06)

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