A quasinonlocal coupling method for nonlocal and local diffusion models

DOI10.1137/17M1124012arXiv1704.00348WikidataQ129795084 ScholiaQ129795084MaRDI QIDQ6285077FDOQ6285077

Authors: Qiang Du, Xingjie Helen Li, Jianfeng Lu, Xiaochuan Tian 

Publication date: 2 April 2017

Abstract: In this paper, we extend the idea of "geometric reconstruction" to couple a nonlocal diffusion model directly with the classical local diffusion in one dimensional space. This new coupling framework removes interfacial inconsistency, ensures the flux balance, and satisfies energy conservation as well as the maximum principle, whereas none of existing coupling methods for nonlocal-to-local coupling satisfies all of these properties. We establish the well-posedness and provide the stability analysis of the coupling method. We investigate the difference to the local limiting problem in terms of the nonlocal interaction range. Furthermore, we propose a first order finite difference numerical discretization and perform several numerical tests to confirm the theoretical findings. In particular, we show that the resulting numerical result is free of artifacts near the boundary of the domain where a classical local boundary condition is used, together with a coupled fully nonlocal model in the interior of the domain.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Linear integral equations (45A05) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Applications of functional analysis in numerical analysis (46N40) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21) Numerical solutions to equations with linear operators (65J10)

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