An Efficient Adaptive Rescaling Scheme for Computing Moving Interface Problems. (7th February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhao, Meng; Ying, Wenjun; Lowengrub, John; Li, Shuwang
• Is Part Of: Communications in computational physics. Volume 21:Number 3(2017:Mar.)
• Page Start: 679
• Page End: 691
• Publication Date: 2017-02-07
• Subjects: 45B05, -- 76D27, -- 35R37; Boundary integral, -- rescaling scheme, -- moving boundary problem, -- Hele-Shaw; Mathematical physics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Physics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 530.150285
• DOI: 10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0040
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1815-2406

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper, we present an efficient rescaling scheme for computing the long-time dynamics of expanding interfaces. The idea is to design an adaptive time-space mapping such that in the new time scale, the interfaces evolves logarithmically fast at early growth stage and exponentially fast at later times. The new spatial scale guarantees the conservation of the area/volume enclosed by the interface. Compared with the original rescaling method in [J. Comput. Phys. 225(1) (2007) 554–567], this adaptive scheme dramatically improves the slow evolution at early times when the size of the interface is small. Our results show that the original three-week computation in [J. Comput. Phys. 225(1) (2007) 554–567] can be reproduced in about one day using the adaptive scheme. We then present the largest and most complicated Hele-Shaw simulation up to date.