Solving Nonlinear Parabolic Equations by a Strongly Implicit Finite Difference Scheme

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-29951-4_14MaRDI QIDQ3295447zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aditya A. Ghodgaonkar, Ivan C. Christov

Publication date 9 July 2020

Published in Applied Wave Mathematics II (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07568

zbMATH Keywords

confined channel flowCrank-Nicolson schemepower-law fluidsecond-order accuracy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Thin fluid films (76A20) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20)

Abstract: We discuss the numerical solution of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations, exhibiting finite speed of propagation, via a strongly implicit finite-difference scheme with formal truncation error $mathcalOleft[(Deltax{)}^2+(Deltat{)}^{2}ight]$. Our application of interest is the spreading of viscous gravity currents in the study of which these type of differential equations arise. Viscous gravity currents are low Reynolds number (viscous forces dominate inertial forces) flow phenomena in which a dense, viscous fluid displaces a lighter (usually immiscible) fluid. The fluids may be confined by the sidewalls of a channel or propagate in an unconfined two-dimensional (or axisymmetric three-dimensional) geometry. Under the lubrication approximation, the mathematical description of the spreading of these fluids reduces to solving the so-called thin-film equation for the current's shape $h(x,t)$. To solve such nonlinear parabolic equations we propose a finite-difference scheme based on the Crank--Nicolson idea. We implement the scheme for problems involving a single spatial coordinate (i.e., two-dimensional, axisymmetric or spherically-symmetric three-dimensional currents) on an equispaced but staggered grid. We benchmark the scheme against analytical solutions and highlight its strong numerical stability by specifically considering the spreading of non-Newtonian power-law fluids in a variable-width confined channel-like geometry (a "Hele-Shaw cell") subject to a given mass conservation/balance constraint. We show that this constraint can be implemented by re-expressing it as nonlinear flux boundary conditions on the domain's endpoints. Then, we show numerically that the scheme achieves its full second-order accuracy in space and time. We also highlight through numerical simulations how the proposed scheme accurately respects the mass conservation/balance constraint.

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