Analysis of symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Allen-Cahn equation and the mean curvature flow

被引:67
作者
Feng, Xiaobing [1 ]
Li, Yukun [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tennessee, Dept Math, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
关键词
Allen-Cahn equation; phase transition; mean curvature flow; discontinuous Galerkin methods; discrete spectral estimate; error estimates; APPROXIMATION; CONVERGENCE; INTERFACES; MOTION;
D O I
10.1093/imanum/dru058
中图分类号
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
This paper develops and analyses two fully discrete interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (IP-DG) methods for the Allen-Cahn equation, which is a nonlinear singular perturbation of the heat equation and originally arises from phase transition of binary alloys in materials science, and its sharp interface limit (the mean curvature flow) as the perturbation parameter tends to zero. Both fully implicit and energysplitting time-stepping schemes are proposed. The primary goal of the paper is to derive sharp error bounds which depend on the reciprocal of the perturbation parameter epsilon (also called 'interaction length') only in some lower polynomial order, instead of exponential order, for the proposed IP-DG methods. The derivation is based on a refinement of the nonstandard error analysis technique first introduced in Feng & Prohl (2003, Numerical analysis of the Allen-Cahn equation and approximation for mean curvature flows. Numer. Math., 2003, 94, 33-65). The centrepiece of this new technique is to establish a spectrum estimate result in totally discontinuous DG finite element spaces with the help of a similar spectrum estimate result in the conforming finite element spaces which was established in Feng & Prohl. As a nontrivial application of the sharp error estimates, they are used to establish convergence, and the rates of convergence of the zero-level sets of the fully discrete IP-DG solutions to the classical and generalized mean curvature flow. Numerical experiment results are also presented to gauge the theoretical results and the performance of the proposed fully discrete IP-DG methods.
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页码:1622 / 1651
页数:30
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