Damping factors for the gap-tooth scheme

Details Damping factors for the gap-tooth scheme Damping factors for the gap-tooth scheme

2003-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310014v1

Physics

Computational Physics

11 pages; 2 figures; Submitted to Proceedings of the Summer School in Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Lugano, Lecture Note

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An important class of problems exhibits macroscopically smooth behaviour in space and time, while only a microscopic evolution law is known. For such time-dependent multi-scale problems, the gap-tooth scheme has recently been proposed. The scheme approximates the evolution of an unavailable (in closed form) macroscopic equation in a macroscopic domain; it only uses appropriately initialized simulations of the available microscopic model in a number of small boxes. For some model problems, including numerical homogenization, the scheme is essentially equivalent to a finite difference scheme, provided we repeatedly impose appropriate algebraic constraints on the solution for each box. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to obtain a convergent scheme without constraining the microscopic code, by introducing buffers that "shield" over relatively short times the dynamics inside each box from boundary effects. We explore and quantify the behavior of these schemes systematically through the numerical computation of damping factors of the corresponding coarse time-stepper, for which no closed formula is available.

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