Implicit boundary conditions in partial differential equations discretizations: identifying spurious modes and model reduction

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2023.112743MaRDI QIDQ6119280zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pascal R. Karam, Bassam Bamieh

Publication date 29 February 2024

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15802

zbMATH Keywords

differential algebraic equationsimplicit boundary conditionsmodel reductionOrr-Sommerfeld operatorspectral methodsspurious eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (65Lxx) Hydrodynamic stability (76Exx) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx)

Abstract: We revisit the problem of spurious modes that are sometimes encountered in partial differential equations discretizations. It is generally suspected that one of the causes for spurious modes is due to how boundary conditions are treated, and we use this as the starting point of our investigations. By regarding boundary conditions as algebraic constraints on a differential equation, we point out that any differential equation with homogeneous boundary conditions also admits a typically infinite number of hidden or implicit boundary conditions. In most discretization schemes, these additional implicit boundary conditions are violated, and we argue that this is what leads to the emergence of spurious modes. These observations motivate two definitions of the quality of computed eigenvalues based on violations of derivatives of boundary conditions on the one hand, and on the Grassmann distance between subspaces associated with computed eigenspaces on the other. Both of these tests are based on a standardized treatment of boundary conditions and do not require a priori knowledge of eigenvalue locations. The effectiveness of these tests is demonstrated on several examples known to have spurious modes. In addition, these quality tests show that in most problems, about half the computed spectrum of a differential operator is of low quality. The tests also specifically identify the low accuracy modes, which can then be projected out as a type of model reduction scheme.

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