Title
A positivity preserving characteristic finite element method for solving the transport and convection–diffusion–reaction equations on general surfaces
Abstract
In this paper, a positivity preserving characteristic finite element method is presented to solve the transport and convection–diffusion–reaction equations on general surfaces. The surface finite element method, which solves a variation problem by the linear finite element space on a piecewise triangulated surface, is applied to spatial discretization. For the backtracking in characteristic derivative discretization, unlike the cases on the two-dimensional plane, the foots of approximate characteristics may locate in the outer domain of the surface. To determine the values of solution at the foots of characteristics, a new strategy, which permits larger time steps, is designed instead of the discrete closest point mapping method which has a strict time step restriction. By combining with the mass lumping technique, the proposed numerical scheme is positivity preserving. The proposed method can also be extended to the problems with nonlinear convection terms. Various numerical examples are performed to demonstrate the validity and accuracy of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.cpc.2019.106941
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Surface partial differential equations,Surface finite element method,Modified method of characteristic,Positivity preservation,Mass lumping
Discretization,Convection–diffusion equation,Convection,Nonlinear system,Mathematical analysis,Finite element method,Triangulation,Backtracking,Piecewise,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
247
0010-4655
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xufeng Xiao112.38
Zihuan Dai2203.34
Xinlong Feng313522.33