Higher-Order GFDM for Linear Elliptic Operators

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Authors: Heinrich Kraus, J. Kuhnert, Pratik Suchde

Publication date: 2 May 2023

Abstract: We present a novel approach of discretizing diffusion operators of the form

a b l a c d o t (l a m b d a a b l a u)

in the context of meshfree generalized finite difference methods. Our ansatz uses properties of derived operators and combines the discrete Laplace operator with reconstruction functions approximating the diffusion coefficient

l a m b d a

. Provided that the reconstructions are of a sufficiently high order, we prove that the order of accuracy of the discrete Laplace operator transfers to the derived diffusion operator. We show that the new discrete diffusion operator inherits the diagonal dominance property of the discrete Laplace operator and fulfills enrichment properties. Our numerical results for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations show that even low-order reconstructions preserve the order of the underlying discrete Laplace operator for sufficiently smooth diffusion coefficients. In experiments, we demonstrate the applicability of the new discrete diffusion operator to interface problems with point clouds not aligning to the interface and numerically prove first-order convergence.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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