Mathematics – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
2007-08-13
Mathematics
Numerical Analysis
24 pages and 30 figures
Scientific paper
This paper concerns with numerical approximations of solutions of second order fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). A new notion of weak solutions, called moment solutions, is introduced for second order fully nonlinear PDEs. Unlike viscosity solutions, moment solutions are defined by a constructive method, called vanishing moment method, hence, they can be readily computed by existing numerical methods such as finite difference, finite element, spectral Galerkin, and discontinuous Galerkin methods with "guaranteed" convergence. The main idea of the proposed vanishing moment method is to approximate a second order fully nonlinear PDE by a higher order, in particular, a fourth order quasilinear PDE. We show by various numerical experiments the viability of the proposed vanishing moment method. All our numerical experiments show the convergence of the vanishing moment method, and they also show that moment solutions coincide with viscosity solutions whenever the latter exist.
Feng Xiaobing
Neilan Michael
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