Virtual element method for elliptic bulk‐surface PDEs in three space dimensions

DOI10.1002/NUM.23040MaRDI QIDQ6071350zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Massimo Frittelli, Anotida Madzvamuse, Ivonne Sgura

Publication date 23 November 2023

Published in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12000

zbMATH Keywords

bulk-surface PDEsbulk-surface virtual element methodconvergence analysispolyhedral meshes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations (35-XX) Numerical analysis (65-XX)

Abstract: In this work we present a novel bulk-surface virtual element method (BSVEM) for the numerical approximation of elliptic bulk-surface partial differential equations (BSPDEs) in three space dimensions. The BSVEM is based on the discretisation of the bulk domain into polyhedral elements with arbitrarily many faces. The polyhedral approximation of the bulk induces a polygonal approximation of the surface. Firstly, we present a geometric error analysis of bulk-surface polyhedral meshes independent of the numerical method. Then, we show that BSVEM has optimal second-order convergence in space, provided the exact solution is $H^{2+3/4}$ in the bulk and $H^2$ on the surface, where the additional $frac34$ is due to the combined effect of surface curvature and polyhedral elements close to the boundary. We show that general polyhedra can be exploited to reduce the computational time of the matrix assembly. To demonstrate optimal convergence results, a numerical example is presented on the unit sphere.

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