Non-degenerate Eulerian finite element method for solving PDEs on surfaces

DOI10.1515/RNAM-2013-0007MaRDI QIDQ4921687zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexey Y. Chernyshenko, Maxim A. Olshanskii

Publication date 13 May 2013

Published in Russian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4707

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceerror estimatesextension to a volumeGalerkin finite element methodhypersurfacenumerical experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method builds upon the formulation introduced in Bertalmio et al., J. Comput. Phys., 174 (2001), 759--780., where a surface equation is extended to a neighborhood of the surface. The resulting degenerate PDE is then solved in one dimension higher, but can be solved on a mesh that is unaligned to the surface. We introduce another extended formulation, which leads to uniformly elliptic (non-degenerate) equations in a bulk domain containing the surface. We apply a finite element method to solve this extended PDE and prove the convergence of finite element solutions restricted to the surface to the solution of the original surface problem. Several numerical examples illustrate the properties of the method.

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