Analysis of divergence-preserving unfitted finite element methods for the mixed Poisson problem

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Main Authors: Lehrenfeld, Christoph, van Beeck, Tim, Voulis, Igor
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Published: 2023
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author Lehrenfeld, Christoph
van Beeck, Tim
Voulis, Igor
author_facet Lehrenfeld, Christoph
van Beeck, Tim
Voulis, Igor
contents In this paper we present a new H(div)-conforming unfitted finite element method for the mixed Poisson problem which is robust in the cut configuration and preserves conservation properties of body-fitted finite element methods. The key is to formulate the divergence-constraint on the active mesh, instead of the physical domain, in order to obtain robustness with respect to cut configurations without the need for a stabilization that pollutes the mass balance. This change in the formulation results in a slight inconsistency, but does not affect the accuracy of the flux variable. By applying post-processings for the scalar variable, in virtue of classical local post-processings in body-fitted methods, we retain optimal convergence rates for both variables and even the superconvergence after post-processing of the scalar variable. We present the method and perform a rigorous a-priori error analysis of the method and discuss several variants and extensions. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results.
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spellingShingle Analysis of divergence-preserving unfitted finite element methods for the mixed Poisson problem
Lehrenfeld, Christoph
van Beeck, Tim
Voulis, Igor
Numerical Analysis
In this paper we present a new H(div)-conforming unfitted finite element method for the mixed Poisson problem which is robust in the cut configuration and preserves conservation properties of body-fitted finite element methods. The key is to formulate the divergence-constraint on the active mesh, instead of the physical domain, in order to obtain robustness with respect to cut configurations without the need for a stabilization that pollutes the mass balance. This change in the formulation results in a slight inconsistency, but does not affect the accuracy of the flux variable. By applying post-processings for the scalar variable, in virtue of classical local post-processings in body-fitted methods, we retain optimal convergence rates for both variables and even the superconvergence after post-processing of the scalar variable. We present the method and perform a rigorous a-priori error analysis of the method and discuss several variants and extensions. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results.
title Analysis of divergence-preserving unfitted finite element methods for the mixed Poisson problem
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12722