Higher-Degree Immersed Finite Elements for Second-Order Elliptic Interface Problems

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dc.contributor.authorBen Romdhane, Mohameden
dc.contributor.committeechairAdjerid, Slimaneen
dc.contributor.committeecochairLin, Taoen
dc.contributor.committeememberHagedorn, George A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRenardy, Yuriko Y.en
dc.contributor.departmentMathematicsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:18:17Zen
dc.date.adate2011-09-16en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:18:17Zen
dc.date.issued2011-08-01en
dc.date.rdate2011-09-16en
dc.date.sdate2011-08-25en
dc.description.abstractA wide range of applications involve interface problems. In most of the cases, mathematical modeling of these interface problems leads to partial differential equations with non-smooth or discontinuous inputs and solutions, especially across material interfaces. Different numerical methods have been developed to solve these kinds of problems and handle the non-smooth behavior of the input data and/or the solution across the interface. The main focus of our work is the immersed finite element method to obtain optimal numerical solutions for interface problems. In this thesis, we present piecewise quadratic immersed finite element (IFE) spaces that are used with an immersed finite element (IFE) method with interior penalty (IP) for solving two-dimensional second-order elliptic interface problems without requiring the mesh to be aligned with the material interfaces. An analysis of the constructed IFE spaces and their dimensions is presented. Shape functions of Lagrange and hierarchical types are constructed for these spaces, and a proof for the existence is established. The interpolation errors in the proposed piecewise quadratic spaces yield optimal <i>O</i>(h³) and <i>O</i>(h²) convergence rates, respectively, in the L² and broken H¹ norms under mesh refinement. Furthermore, numerical results are presented to validate our theory and show the optimality of our quadratic IFE method. Our approach in this thesis is, first, to establish a theory for the simplified case of a linear interface. After that, we extend the framework to quadratic interfaces. We, then, describe a general procedure for handling arbitrary interfaces occurring in real physical practical applications and present computational examples showing the optimality of the proposed method. Furthermore, we investigate a general procedure for extending our quadratic IFE spaces to <i>p</i>-th degree and construct hierarchical shape functions for <i>p</i>=3.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-08252011-160639en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08252011-160639/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/39258en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartBenRomdhane_M_D_2011.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectInterior Penalty Methoden
dc.subjectGalerkin Methoden
dc.subjectImmersed Finite Elementsen
dc.subjectInterface Problemsen
dc.titleHigher-Degree Immersed Finite Elements for Second-Order Elliptic Interface Problemsen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineMathematicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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