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Volume 36, Issue 1
A Moving Mesh Finite Element Method for Bernoulli Free Boundary Problems

Jinye Shen, Heng Dai & Weizhang Huang

Commun. Comput. Phys., 36 (2024), pp. 248-273.

Published online: 2024-07

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A moving mesh finite element method is studied for the numerical solution of Bernoulli free boundary problems. The method is based on the pseudo-transient continuation with which a moving boundary problem is constructed and its steady-state solution is taken as the solution of the underlying Bernoulli free boundary problem. The moving boundary problem is solved in a split manner at each time step: the moving boundary is updated with the Euler scheme, the interior mesh points are moved using a moving mesh method, and the corresponding initial-boundary value problem is solved using the linear finite element method. The method can take full advantages of both the pseudo-transient continuation and the moving mesh method. Particularly, it is able to move the mesh, free of tangling, to fit the varying domain for a variety of geometries no matter if they are convex or concave. Moreover, it is convergent towards steady state for a broad class of free boundary problems and initial guesses of the free boundary. Numerical examples for Bernoulli free boundary problems with constant and non-constant Bernoulli conditions and for nonlinear free boundary problems are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the method and its ability to deal with various geometries and nonlinearities.

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65M60, 65M50, 35R35, 35R37

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@Article{CiCP-36-248, author = {Shen , JinyeDai , Heng and Huang , Weizhang}, title = {A Moving Mesh Finite Element Method for Bernoulli Free Boundary Problems}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2024}, volume = {36}, number = {1}, pages = {248--273}, abstract = {

A moving mesh finite element method is studied for the numerical solution of Bernoulli free boundary problems. The method is based on the pseudo-transient continuation with which a moving boundary problem is constructed and its steady-state solution is taken as the solution of the underlying Bernoulli free boundary problem. The moving boundary problem is solved in a split manner at each time step: the moving boundary is updated with the Euler scheme, the interior mesh points are moved using a moving mesh method, and the corresponding initial-boundary value problem is solved using the linear finite element method. The method can take full advantages of both the pseudo-transient continuation and the moving mesh method. Particularly, it is able to move the mesh, free of tangling, to fit the varying domain for a variety of geometries no matter if they are convex or concave. Moreover, it is convergent towards steady state for a broad class of free boundary problems and initial guesses of the free boundary. Numerical examples for Bernoulli free boundary problems with constant and non-constant Bernoulli conditions and for nonlinear free boundary problems are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the method and its ability to deal with various geometries and nonlinearities.

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TY - JOUR T1 - A Moving Mesh Finite Element Method for Bernoulli Free Boundary Problems AU - Shen , Jinye AU - Dai , Heng AU - Huang , Weizhang JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 1 SP - 248 EP - 273 PY - 2024 DA - 2024/07 SN - 36 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2023-0214 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/23303.html KW - Free boundary problem, moving boundary problem, moving mesh, finite element, pseudo-transient continuation. AB -

A moving mesh finite element method is studied for the numerical solution of Bernoulli free boundary problems. The method is based on the pseudo-transient continuation with which a moving boundary problem is constructed and its steady-state solution is taken as the solution of the underlying Bernoulli free boundary problem. The moving boundary problem is solved in a split manner at each time step: the moving boundary is updated with the Euler scheme, the interior mesh points are moved using a moving mesh method, and the corresponding initial-boundary value problem is solved using the linear finite element method. The method can take full advantages of both the pseudo-transient continuation and the moving mesh method. Particularly, it is able to move the mesh, free of tangling, to fit the varying domain for a variety of geometries no matter if they are convex or concave. Moreover, it is convergent towards steady state for a broad class of free boundary problems and initial guesses of the free boundary. Numerical examples for Bernoulli free boundary problems with constant and non-constant Bernoulli conditions and for nonlinear free boundary problems are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the method and its ability to deal with various geometries and nonlinearities.

Jinye Shen, Heng Dai & Weizhang Huang. (2024). A Moving Mesh Finite Element Method for Bernoulli Free Boundary Problems. Communications in Computational Physics. 36 (1). 248-273. doi:10.4208/cicp.OA-2023-0214
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