An adaptive nonsymmetric finite volume and boundary element coupling method for a fluid mechanics interface problem

DOI10.1137/16M1076721zbMATH Open1365.65237arXiv1605.07031OpenAlexW2963846443MaRDI QIDQ5738176FDOQ5738176

Authors: Christoph Erath, Robert Schorr 

Publication date: 31 May 2017

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

Abstract: We consider an interface problem often arising in transport problems: a coupled system of partial differential equations with one (elliptic) transport equation on a bounded domain and one equation (in this case the Laplace problem) on the complement, an unbounded domain. Based on the non-symmetric coupling of the finite volume method and boundary element method of [Erath et al., arXiv:1509.00440, 2015] we introduce a robust residual error estimator. The upper bound of the error in an energy (semi)norm is robust against variation of the model data. The lower bound, however, additionally depends on the Peclet number. In several examples we use the local contributions of the a~posteriori error estimator to steer an adaptive mesh-refining algorithm. The adaptive FVM-BEM coupling turns out to be an efficient method especially to solve problems from fluid mechanics, mainly because of the local flux conservation and the stable approximation of convection dominated problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07031

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zbMATH Keywords

robustnessa posteriori error estimatesfinite volume methodadaptive mesh refinementboundary element methodLaplace problemelliptic transport equationconvection dominatednonsymmetric coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Finite volume methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N08) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

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Uses Software

• HILBERT

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