362 | RWTH Publication No: 230371 2013   IGPM362.pdf |
TITLE | An Eulerian Space-Time Finite Element Method for Diffusion Problems on Evolving Surfaces |
AUTHORS | Maxim A. Olshanskii, Arnold Reusken, Xianmin Xu |
ABSTRACT | In this paper, we study numerical methods for the solution of partial differential dequations on evolving surfaces. The evolving hypersurface in Rd defines a d-dimensional space-time manifold in the space-time continuum Rd+1. We derive and analyze a variational formulation for a class of diffusion problems on the space-time manifold. For this variational formulation new well-posedness and stability results are derived. The analysis is based on an inf-sup condition and involves some natural, but non-standard, (anisotropic) function spaces. Based on this formulation a discrete in time variational formulation is introduced that is very suitable as a starting point for a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) space-time finite element discretization. This DG space-time method is explained and results of numerical experiments are presented that illustrate its properties. |
KEYWORDS | evolving surface, space-time finite element, discontinuous Galerkin |
DOI | 10.1137/130918149 |
PUBLICATION | SIAM journal on numerical analysis 52(3), 1354-1377 (2014) |