Higher order accuracy in the gap-tooth scheme for large-scale solutions using microscopic simulators

Details Higher order accuracy in the gap-tooth scheme for large-scale solutions using microscopic simulators Higher order accuracy in the gap-tooth scheme for large-scale solutions using microscopic simulators

2004-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/math/0410310v1

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

16 pages, submitted to CTAC 2004

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We are developing a framework for multiscale computation which enables models at a ``microscopic'' level of description, for example Lattice Boltzmann, Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics simulators, to perform modelling tasks at the ``macroscopic'' length scales of interest. The plan is to use the microscopic rules restricted to small patches of the domain, the ``teeth'', followed by interpolation to estimate macroscopic fields in the ``gaps''. The challenge addressed here is to find general boundary conditions for the patches of microscopic simulators that appropriately connect the widely separated ``teeth'' to achieve high order accuracy over the macroscale. Here we start exploring the issues in the simplest case when the microscopic simulator is the quintessential example of a partial differential equation. For this case analytic solutions provide comparisons. We argue that classic high-order interpolation provides patch boundary conditions which achieve arbitrarily high-order consistency in the gap-tooth scheme, and with care are numerically stable. The high-order consistency is demonstrated on a class of linear partial differential equations in two ways: firstly using the dynamical systems approach of holistic discretisation; and secondly through the eigenvalues of selected numerical problems. When applied to patches of microscopic simulations these patch boundary conditions should achieve efficient macroscale simulation.

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