A Cartesian grid based tailored finite point method for reaction-diffusion equation on complex domains

• Published in: Computers & mathematics with applications (1987) Vol. 97; pp. 298 - 313
• Main Authors: Xie, Yaning, Huang, Zhongyi, Ying, Wenjun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2021; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Algorithms; Boundary integral method; Boundary value problems; Cartesian coordinates; Diffusion; Domains; Free boundaries; Integral equations; Interface problem; Interpolation; Iterative methods; Kernel-free boundary integral method; Kernels; Reaction-diffusion equation; Reaction-diffusion equations; Singularly perturbed; Tailored finite point method; Time integration; Reaction-diffusion equation; Tailored finite point method; Interface problem; Singularly perturbed; Kernel-free boundary integral method
• ISSN: 0898-1221; 1873-7668
• DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2021.05.020

This paper presents a Cartesian grid based tailored finite point method (TFPM) for singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equation on complex domains. The method is incorporated with the kernel-free boundary integral algorithm, where the semi-discrete boundary value problems after time integration are reformulated into corresponding Fredholm boundary integral equations (BIEs) of the second kind, however with no algorithmic dependence on the exact analytical expression for the kernels of integrals. The BIEs are iteratively solved by the GMRES method while integral evaluation during each iteration resorts to solving an equivalent interface problem, which in practice is achieved by a series of manipulations in the framework of TFPM including discretization, correction, solution, and interpolation. The proposed method has second-order accuracy for the reaction-diffusion equation as demonstrated by the numerical examples.