A Local Spectral Exterior Calculus for the Sphere and Application to the Shallow Water Equations

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Authors: Clauson Carvalho da Silva, C. Lessig, Boyko Dodov, Henk Dijkstra, Themis Sapsis 

Publication date: 7 May 2020

Abstract: We introduce $Psimathrmec$, a local spectral exterior calculus for the two-sphere $S^2$. $Psimathrmec$ provides a discretization of Cartan's exterior calculus on $S^2$ formed by spherical differential $r$-form wavelets. These are well localized in space and frequency and provide (Stevenson) frames for the homogeneous Sobolev spaces $dot{H}^{-r+1}(Omeg{a}_u^r,S^2)$ of differential $r$-forms. At the same time, they satisfy important properties of the exterior calculus, such as the de Rahm complex and the Hodge-Helmholtz decomposition. Through this, $Psimathrmec$ is tailored towards structure preserving discretizations that can adapt to solutions with varying regularity. The construction of $Psimathrmec$ is based on a novel spherical wavelet frame for $L_2(S^2)$ that we obtain by introducing scalable reproducing kernel frames. These extend scalable frames to weighted sampling expansions and provide an alternative to quadrature rules for the discretization of needlet-like scale-discrete wavelets. We verify the practicality of $Psimathrmec$ for numerical computations using the rotating shallow water equations. Our numerical results demonstrate that a $Psimathrmec$-based discretization of the equations attains accuracy comparable to those of spectral methods while using a representation that is well localized in space and frequency.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for wavelets (65T60) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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