TY - JOUR
T1 - A new treatment of boundary conditions in PDE solution with Galerkin methods via Partial Integral Equation framework
AU - Peet, Yulia T.
AU - Peet, Matthew M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2024/5/1
Y1 - 2024/5/1
N2 - We present a new mathematical framework for solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), which is based on an exact transformation of the underlying PDE that removes the boundary constraints from the solution state and moves them into the dynamics of the equivalent transformed equation. The framework is based on a Partial Integral Equation (PIE) representation of a PDE or a system of PDEs, where Partial Integral Equation does not require boundary conditions on its solution state. The PDE-PIE framework allows for a development of a generalized and consistent treatment of boundary conditions in constructing spectrally convergent solution approximations to a broad class of linear PDEs with non-constant coefficients governed by non-periodic boundary conditions, including, e.g., Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin boundaries, among others. The significance of this result is that a solution to almost any linear PDE in a form of a function series approximation can now be systematically constructed, irrespective of the boundary conditions. Furthermore, in many cases, the resulting ODE system for the expansion coefficients can now be integrated analytically in time, which allows us to obtain solution approximations to a broad class of unsteady PDEs with unprecedented accuracy. We present several PDE solution examples in one spatial variable implemented with the developed PIE-Galerkin methodology using both analytical and numerical integration in time. We also present comparison of the PIE methods with some classical direct PDE solution methods, further demonstrating advantages and potential limitations of the PIE approach. The developed framework can be naturally extended to multiple spatial dimensions and, potentially, to nonlinear problems.
AB - We present a new mathematical framework for solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), which is based on an exact transformation of the underlying PDE that removes the boundary constraints from the solution state and moves them into the dynamics of the equivalent transformed equation. The framework is based on a Partial Integral Equation (PIE) representation of a PDE or a system of PDEs, where Partial Integral Equation does not require boundary conditions on its solution state. The PDE-PIE framework allows for a development of a generalized and consistent treatment of boundary conditions in constructing spectrally convergent solution approximations to a broad class of linear PDEs with non-constant coefficients governed by non-periodic boundary conditions, including, e.g., Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin boundaries, among others. The significance of this result is that a solution to almost any linear PDE in a form of a function series approximation can now be systematically constructed, irrespective of the boundary conditions. Furthermore, in many cases, the resulting ODE system for the expansion coefficients can now be integrated analytically in time, which allows us to obtain solution approximations to a broad class of unsteady PDEs with unprecedented accuracy. We present several PDE solution examples in one spatial variable implemented with the developed PIE-Galerkin methodology using both analytical and numerical integration in time. We also present comparison of the PIE methods with some classical direct PDE solution methods, further demonstrating advantages and potential limitations of the PIE approach. The developed framework can be naturally extended to multiple spatial dimensions and, potentially, to nonlinear problems.
KW - Boundary conditions
KW - Chebyshev polynomials
KW - Galerkin methods
KW - Partial Differential Equations
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cam.2023.115673
DO - 10.1016/j.cam.2023.115673
M3 - Article
SN - 0377-0427
VL - 442
JO - Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
JF - Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
M1 - 115673
ER -