TY - JOUR
T1 - Convergence Analysis of a Numerical Scheme for the Porous Medium Equation by an Energetic Variational Approach
AU - Duan , Chenghua
AU - Liu , Chun
AU - Wang , Cheng
AU - Yue , Xingye
JO - Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications
VL - 1
SP - 63
EP - 80
PY - 2019
DA - 2019/12
SN - 13
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2019-0073
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nmtma/13449.html
KW - Energetic variational approach, porous medium equation, trajectory equation, optimal
rate convergence analysis.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">The porous medium equation <span style="text-align: justify;">(PME)</span>&nbsp;is a typical nonlinear degenerate
parabolic equation. We have studied numerical methods for PME by an energetic variational approach in [C. Duan et al., J. Comput. Phys., 385 (2019), pp. 13–32], where
the trajectory equation can be obtained and two numerical schemes have been developed based on different dissipative energy laws. It is also proved that the nonlinear
scheme, based on <span style="text-align: justify;">$f$</span>&nbsp;log <span style="text-align: justify;">$f$</span> as the total energy form of the dissipative law, is uniquely solvable on an admissible convex set and preserves the corresponding discrete dissipation
law. Moreover, under certain smoothness assumption, we have also obtained the second order convergence in space and the first order convergence in time for the scheme.
In this paper, we provide a rigorous proof of the error estimate by a careful higher order asymptotic expansion and two step error estimates. The latter technique contains
a rough estimate to control the highly nonlinear term in a discrete $W$<span style="text-align: justify;"><sup>1,∞&nbsp;</sup></span>norm and a
refined estimate is applied to derive the optimal error order.</p>