Title
A Quasi-nonlocal Coupling Method for Nonlocal and Local Diffusion Models.
Abstract
In this paper, we extend the idea of "geometric reconstruction" to couple a nonlocal diffusion model directly with the classical local diffusion in one dimensional space. This new coupling framework removes interfacial inconsistency, ensures the flux balance, and satisfies energy conservation as well as the maximum principle, whereas none of existing coupling methods for nonlocalto-local coupling satisfies all of these properties. We establish the well-posedness and provide the stability analysis of the coupling method. We investigate the difference to the local limiting problem in terms of the nonlocal interaction range. Furthermore, we propose a first order finite difference numerical discretization and perform several numerical tests to confirm the theoretical findings. In particular, we show that the resulting numerical result is free of artifacts near the boundary of the domain where a classical local boundary condition is used, together with a coupled fully nonlocal model in the interior of the domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1137/17M1124012
SIAM JOURNAL ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonlocal diffusion,quasi-nonlocal coupling,geometric reconstruction,modeling error estimate,well-posedness,physics preserving
Discretization,Boundary value problem,Energy conservation,Maximum principle,Coupling,Mathematical analysis,Finite difference,Diffusion (business),Mathematics,One-dimensional space
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
56
3
0036-1429
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiang Du11692188.27
Xingjie Helen Li291.59
Jianfeng Lu313638.65
Xiaochuan Tian4143.01