Modeling Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites with Space-Time Adaptive Multimesh <em>hp</em>-FEM

Modeling Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites with Space-Time Adaptive Multimesh <em>hp</em>-FEM

Year:    2012

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 11 (2012), Iss. 1 : pp. 249–270

Abstract

We are concerned with a model of ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) materials that consists of a coupled system of the Poisson and Nernst-Planck equations, discretized by means of the finite element method (FEM). We show that due to the transient character of the problem it is efficient to use adaptive algorithms that are capable of changing the mesh dynamically in time. We also show that due to large qualitative and quantitative differences between the two solution components, it is efficient to approximate them on different meshes using a novel adaptive multimesh hp-FEM. The study is accompanied with numerous computations and comparisons of the adaptive multimesh hp-FEM with several other adaptive FEM algorithms.


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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.081110.180311a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 11 (2012), Iss. 1 : pp. 249–270

Published online:    2012-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    22

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