Random walks and moving boundaries: Estimating the penetration of diffusants into dense rubbers
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Publication:6436610
DOI10.1016/J.PROBENGMECH.2023.103546arXiv2305.08520MaRDI QIDQ6436610FDOQ6436610
Authors: Surendra Nepal, Yosief Wondmagegne, Adrian Muntean 
Publication date: 15 May 2023
Abstract: For certain materials science scenarios arising in rubber technology, one-dimensional moving boundary problems (MBPs) with kinetic boundary conditions are capable of unveiling the large-time behavior of the diffusants penetration front, giving a direct estimate on the service life of the material. In this paper, we propose a random walk algorithm able to lead to good numerical approximations of both the concentration profile and the location of the sharp front. Essentially, the proposed scheme decouples the target evolution system in two steps: (i) the ordinary differential equation corresponding to the evaluation of the speed of the moving boundary is solved via an explicit Euler method, and (ii) the associated diffusion problem is solved by a random walk method. To verify the correctness of our random walk algorithm we compare the resulting approximations to results based on a finite element approach with a controlled convergence rate. Our numerical experiments recover well penetration depth measurements of an experimental setup targeting dense rubbers.
Moving boundary problems for PDEs (35R37) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M75)
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