Optimal local approximation spaces for parabolic problems

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DOI10.1137/20M1384294zbMATH Open1487.65157arXiv2012.02759OpenAlexW4220736807MaRDI QIDQ5865254FDOQ5865254

Julia Schleuß, Kathrin Smetana

Publication date: 13 June 2022

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose local space-time approximation spaces for parabolic problems that are optimal in the sense of Kolmogorov and may be employed in multiscale and domain decomposition methods. The diffusion coefficient can be arbitrarily rough in space and time. To construct local approximation spaces we consider a compact transfer operator that acts on the space of local solutions and covers the full time dimension. The optimal local spaces are then given by the left singular vectors of the transfer operator. To prove compactness of the latter we combine a suitable parabolic Caccioppoli inequality with the compactness theorem of Aubin-Lions. In contrast to the elliptic setting [I. Babuv{s}ka and R. Lipton, Multiscale Model. Simul., 9 (2011), pp. 373-406] we need an additional regularity result to combine the two results. Furthermore, we employ the generalized finite element method to couple local spaces and construct an approximation of the global solution. Since our approach yields reduced space-time bases, the computation of the global approximation does not require a time stepping method and is thus computationally efficient. Moreover, we derive rigorous local and global a priori error bounds. In detail, we bound the global approximation error in a graph norm by the local errors in the L2(H1)-norm, noting that the space the transfer operator maps to is equipped with this norm. Numerical experiments demonstrate an exponential decay of the singular values of the transfer operator and the local and global approximation errors for problems with high contrast or multiscale structure regarding space and time.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02759




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