Numerical analysis of a parabolic variational inequality system modeling biofilm growth at the porescale

DOI10.1002/NUM.22458MaRDI QIDQ6071679zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Azhar Alhammali, Małgorzata Peszyńska

Publication date 28 November 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00362

zbMATH Keywords

biofilm growthcoupled systemerror estimatesfinite elementsparabolic variational inequalitysemismooth Newton solver

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: In this paper we consider a system of two coupled nonlinear diffusion--reaction partial differential equations (PDEs) which model the growth of biofilm and consumption of the nutrient. At the scale of interest the biofilm density is subject to a pointwise constraint, thus the biofilm PDE is framed as a parabolic variational inequality. We derive rigorous error estimates for a finite element (FE) approximation to the coupled nonlinear system and confirm experimentally that the numerical approximation converges at the predicted rate. We also show simulations in which we track the free boundary in the domains which resemble the pore scale geometry and in which we test the different modeling assumptions.

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