Time‐continuous and time‐discontinuous space‐time finite elements for advection‐diffusion problems

DOI10.1002/NME.7241arXiv2206.01423OpenAlexW4361270514MaRDI QIDQ6091391FDOQ6091391

Authors: Igor Voulis, Norbert Hosters, M. Behr 

Publication date: 24 November 2023

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct four variants of space-time finite element discretizations based on linear tensor-product and simplex-type finite elements. The resulting discretizations are continuous in space, and continuous or discontinuous in time. In a first test run, all four methods are applied to a linear scalar advection-diffusion model problem. Then, the convergence properties of the time-discontinuous space-time finite element discretizations are studied in numerical experiments. Advection velocity and diffusion coefficient are varied, such that the parabolic case of pure diffusion (heat equation), as well as, the hyperbolic case of pure advection (transport equation) are included in the study. For each model parameter set, the L2 error at the final time is computed for spatial and temporal element lengths ranging over several orders of magnitude to allow for an individual evaluation of the methods' spatial, temporal, and spacetime accuracy. In the parabolic case, particular attention is paid to the influence of time-dependent boundary conditions. Key findings include a spatial accuracy of second order and a temporal accuracy between second and third order. The temporal accuracy tends towards third order depending on how advection-dominated the test case is, on the choice of the specific discretization method, and on the time-(in)dependence and treatment of the boundary conditions. Additionally, the potential of time-continuous simplex space-time finite elements for heat flux computations is demonstrated with a piston ring pack test case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01423

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilized finite element methodsspace-time finite elementsadvection-diffusion problemssimplex space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Preconditioners for iterative methods (65F08) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79) Transport equations (35Q49)

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