Smoothed Boundary Method for Solving Partial Differential Equations with General Boundary Conditions on Complex Boundaries

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Authors: Hui-Chia Yu, Hsun-Yi Chen, K. Thornton 

Publication date: 7 December 2009

Abstract: In this article, we describe an approach for solving partial differential equations with general boundary conditions imposed on arbitrarily shaped boundaries. A function that has a prescribed value on the domain in which a differential equation is valid and smoothly but rapidly varying values on the boundary where boundary conditions are imposed is used to modify the original differential equations. The mathematical derivations are straight forward, and generically applicable to a wide variety of partial differential equations. To demonstrate the general applicability of the approach, we provide four examples: (1) the diffusion equation with both Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions, (2) the diffusion equation with surface diffusion, (3) the mechanical equilibrium equation, and (4) the equation for phase transformation with additional boundaries. The solutions for a few of these cases are validated against corresponding analytical and semi-analytical solutions. The potential of the approach is demonstrated with five applications: surface-reaction diffusion kinetics with a complex geometry, Kirkendall-effect-induced deformation, thermal stress in a complex geometry, phase transformations affected by substrate surfaces, and a self-propelling droplet.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Fictitious domain methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N85) Fictitious domain methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M85)

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