A trace finite element method for PDEs on evolving surfaces

DOI10.1137/16M1099388MaRDI QIDQ5348258zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xianmin Xu, Maxim A. Olshanskii

Publication date 15 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05831

zbMATH Keywords

convergencenumerical experimentfast marching methodevolving surfacestrace finite element methodevel set method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an approach for solving PDEs on evolving surfaces using a combination of the trace finite element method and a fast marching method. The numerical approach is based on the Eulerian description of the surface problem and employs a time-independent background mesh that is not fitted to the surface. The surface and its evolution may be given implicitly, for example, by the level set method. Extension of the PDE off the surface is not required. The method introduced in this paper naturally allows a surface to undergo topological changes and experience local geometric singularities. In the simplest setting, the numerical method is second order accurate in space and time. Higher order variants are feasible, but not studied in this paper. We show results of several numerical experiments, which demonstrate the convergence properties of the method and its ability to handle the case of the surface with topological changes.

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