Abstract
We present a robust second-order accurate method for discretizing the multi-dimensional Heaviside and the Dirac delta functions on irregular domains. The method is robust in the following ways: (1) integrations of source terms on a co-dimension one surface are independent of the underlying grid and therefore stable under perturbations of the domain's boundary; (2) the method depends only on the function value of a level function, not on its derivatives. We present the discretizations in tabulated form to make their implementations straightforward. We present numerical results in two and three spatial dimensions to demonstrate the second-order accuracy in the L1-norm in the case of the solution of PDEs with singular source terms. In the case of evaluating the contribution of singular source terms on interfaces, the method is also second-order accurate in the L∞-norm.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9686-9695 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Computational Physics |
| Volume | 227 |
| Issue number | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 20 Nov 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The research of C. Min was supported in part by the Kyung Hee University Research Fund (KHU-20070608) in 2007. The research of F. Gibou was supported in part by a Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, by NSF under Grant agreement DMS 0713858 and by the DOE Office of Science under Grant No. DE-FG02-08ER15991.
Keywords
- Dirac delta function
- Heaviside function
- Level set methods
- Singular source term