A polytopal discrete de Rham complex on manifolds, with application to the Maxwell equations
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| author | Droniou, Jérôme Hanot, Marien Oliynyk, Todd |
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| contents | We design in this work a discrete de Rham complex on manifolds. This complex, written in the framework of exterior calculus, has the same cohomology as the continuous de Rham complex, is of arbitrary order of accuracy and, in principle, can be designed on meshes made of generic elements (that is, elements whose boundary is the union of an arbitrary number of curved edges/faces). Notions of local (full and trimmed) polynomial spaces are developed, with compatibility requirements between polynomials on mesh entities of various dimensions. We give explicit constructions of such polynomials in 2D, for some meshes made of curved triangles or quadrangles (such meshes are easy to design in many cases, starting from a few charts describing the manifold). The discrete de Rham complex is then used to set up a scheme for the Maxwell equations on a 2D manifold without boundary, and we show that a natural discrete version of the constraint linking the electric field and the electric charge density is satisfied. Numerical examples are provided on the sphere and the torus, based on bespoke analytical solutions and meshes on each of these manifolds. |
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| spellingShingle | A polytopal discrete de Rham complex on manifolds, with application to the Maxwell equations Droniou, Jérôme Hanot, Marien Oliynyk, Todd Numerical Analysis 65M50, 65M60, 35Q61, 78M10 We design in this work a discrete de Rham complex on manifolds. This complex, written in the framework of exterior calculus, has the same cohomology as the continuous de Rham complex, is of arbitrary order of accuracy and, in principle, can be designed on meshes made of generic elements (that is, elements whose boundary is the union of an arbitrary number of curved edges/faces). Notions of local (full and trimmed) polynomial spaces are developed, with compatibility requirements between polynomials on mesh entities of various dimensions. We give explicit constructions of such polynomials in 2D, for some meshes made of curved triangles or quadrangles (such meshes are easy to design in many cases, starting from a few charts describing the manifold). The discrete de Rham complex is then used to set up a scheme for the Maxwell equations on a 2D manifold without boundary, and we show that a natural discrete version of the constraint linking the electric field and the electric charge density is satisfied. Numerical examples are provided on the sphere and the torus, based on bespoke analytical solutions and meshes on each of these manifolds. |
| title | A polytopal discrete de Rham complex on manifolds, with application to the Maxwell equations |
| topic | Numerical Analysis 65M50, 65M60, 35Q61, 78M10 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16130 |