Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Monge-Ampere equation

arXiv2306.05296MaRDI QIDQ6439677FDOQ6439677

Publication date: 8 June 2023

Abstract: We introduce two hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for numerically solving the Monge-Ampere equation. The first HDG method is devised to solve the nonlinear elliptic Monge-Ampere equation by using Newton's method. The second HDG method is devised to solve a sequence of the Poisson equation until convergence to a fixed-point solution of the Monge-Ampere equation is reached. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the convergence and accuracy of the HDG methods. Furthermore, the HDG methods are applied to r-adaptive mesh generation by redistributing a given scalar density function via the optimal transport theory. This r-adaptivity methodology leads to the Monge-Ampere equation with a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition arising from the optimal transport of the density function to conform the resulting high-order mesh to the boundary. Hence, we extend the HDG methods to treat the nonlinear Neumann boundary condition. Numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the generation of r-adaptive high-order meshes on planar and curved domains.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M50) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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