A convergent finite difference scheme for the variational heat equation

DOI10.1007/S00033-017-0871-ZzbMATH Open1380.65150arXiv1701.01265OpenAlexW2571793211MaRDI QIDQ680158FDOQ680158

Authors: Giuseppe Maria Coclite, Johanna Ridder, N. H. Risebro 

Publication date: 22 January 2018

Published in: ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The variational heat equation is a nonlinear, parabolic equation not in divergence form that arises as a model for the dynamics of the director field in a nematic liquid crystal. We present a finite difference scheme for a transformed, possibly degenerate version of this equation and prove that a subsequence of the numerical solutions converges to a weak solution. This result is supplemented by numerical examples that show that weak solutions are not unique and give some intuition about how to obtain the physically relevant solution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01265

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zbMATH Keywords

weak solutionsfinite difference schemevariational heat equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Heat equation (35K05) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

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