SLERP-TVDRK (STVDRK) Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations on Spheres

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Main Authors: Leung, Shingyu, Chau, Wai Ming, Lee, Young Kyu
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author Leung, Shingyu
Chau, Wai Ming
Lee, Young Kyu
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Chau, Wai Ming
Lee, Young Kyu
contents We mimic the conventional explicit Total Variation Diminishing Runge-Kutta (TVDRK) schemes and propose a class of numerical integrators to solve differential equations on a unit sphere. Our approach utilizes the exponential map inherent to the sphere and employs spherical linear interpolation (SLERP). These modified schemes, named SLERP-TVDRK methods or STVDRK, offer improved accuracy compared to typical projective RK methods. Furthermore, they eliminate the need for any projection and provide a straightforward implementation. While we have successfully constructed STVDRK schemes only up to third-order accuracy, we explain the challenges in deriving STVDRK-r for r \ge 4. To showcase the effectiveness of our approach, we will demonstrate its application in solving the eikonal equation on the unit sphere and simulating p-harmonic flows using our proposed method.
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spellingShingle SLERP-TVDRK (STVDRK) Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations on Spheres
Leung, Shingyu
Chau, Wai Ming
Lee, Young Kyu
Numerical Analysis
We mimic the conventional explicit Total Variation Diminishing Runge-Kutta (TVDRK) schemes and propose a class of numerical integrators to solve differential equations on a unit sphere. Our approach utilizes the exponential map inherent to the sphere and employs spherical linear interpolation (SLERP). These modified schemes, named SLERP-TVDRK methods or STVDRK, offer improved accuracy compared to typical projective RK methods. Furthermore, they eliminate the need for any projection and provide a straightforward implementation. While we have successfully constructed STVDRK schemes only up to third-order accuracy, we explain the challenges in deriving STVDRK-r for r \ge 4. To showcase the effectiveness of our approach, we will demonstrate its application in solving the eikonal equation on the unit sphere and simulating p-harmonic flows using our proposed method.
title SLERP-TVDRK (STVDRK) Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations on Spheres
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10420