High Order Multiscale Methods for Advection-Diffusion Equation in Highly Oscillatory Regimes: Application to Surfactant Diffusion and Generalization to Arbitrary Domains
Year: 2025
Author: Clarissa Astuto
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 37 (2025), Iss. 5 : pp. 1327–1357
Abstract
In this paper, we propose high order numerical methods to solve a 2D advection diffusion equation, in the highly oscillatory regime. We use an integrator strategy that allows the construction of arbitrary high-order schemes leading to an accurate approximation of the solution without any time step-size restriction. This paper focuses on the multiscale challenges in time of the problem, that come from the velocity, an $ε$-periodic function, whose expression is explicitly known. $ε$–uniform third order in time numerical approximations are obtained. For the space discretization, this strategy is combined with high order finite difference schemes. Numerical experiments show that the proposed methods achieve the expected order of accuracy, and it is validated by several tests across diverse domains and boundary conditions. The novelty of the paper consists of introducing a numerical scheme that is high order accurate in space and time, with a particular attention to the dependency on a small parameter in the time scale. The high order in space is obtained enlarging the interpolation stencil already established in [44], and further refined in [46], with a special emphasis on the squared boundary, especially when a Dirichlet condition is assigned. In such case, we compute an ad hoc Taylor expansion of the solution to ensure that there is no degradation of the accuracy order at the boundary. On the other hand, the high accuracy in time is obtained extending the work proposed in [19]. The combination of high-order accuracy in both space and time is particularly significant due to the presence of two small parameters—$δ$ and $ε$—in space and time, respectively.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2024-0114
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 37 (2025), Iss. 5 : pp. 1327–1357
Published online: 2025-01
AMS Subject Headings: Global Science Press
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 31
Keywords: High order discretization time multi-scale advection-diffusion equation surfactant oscillating trap arbitrary domains.