New hybrid quadrature schemes for weakly singular kernels applied to isogeometric boundary elements for 3D Stokes flow

DOI10.1016/J.ENGANABOUND.2023.04.037arXiv2210.08507OpenAlexW4377018411MaRDI QIDQ6414079FDOQ6414079

Authors: Maximilian Harmel, Roger A. Sauer 

Publication date: 16 October 2022

Abstract: This work proposes four novel hybrid quadrature schemes for the efficient and accurate evaluation of weakly singular boundary integrals (1/r kernel) on arbitrary smooth surfaces. Such integrals appear in boundary element analysis for several partial differential equations including the Stokes equation for viscous flow and the Helmholtz equation for acoustics. The proposed quadrature schemes apply a Duffy transform-based quadrature rule to surface elements containing the singularity and classical Gaussian quadrature to the remaining elements. Two of the four schemes additionally consider a special treatment for elements near to the singularity, where refined Gaussian quadrature and a new moment-fitting quadrature rule are used. The hybrid quadrature schemes are systematically studied on flat B-spline patches and on NURBS spheres considering two different sphere discretizations: An exact single-patch sphere with degenerate control points at the poles and an approximate discretization that consist of six patches with regular elements. The efficiency of the quadrature schemes is further demonstrated in boundary element analysis for Stokes flow, where steady problems with rotating and translating curved objects are investigated in convergence studies for both, mesh and quadrature refinement. Much higher convergence rates are observed for the proposed new schemes in comparison to classical schemes.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2023.04.037

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas (65D32) Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15) Isogeometric methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S22)

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