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A finite volume scheme for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations

Numerical Analysis 2019-04-22 v2

Abstract

We propose a second order finite volume scheme for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations. For some of these models (porous media equation, drift-diffusion system for semiconductors, ...) it has been proved that the transient solution converges to a steady-state when time goes to infinity. The present scheme preserves steady-states and provides a satisfying long-time behavior. Moreover, it remains valid and second-order accurate in space even in the degenerate case. After describing the numerical scheme, we present several numerical results which confirm the high-order accuracy in various regime degenerate and non degenerate cases and underline the efficiency to preserve the large-time asymptotic.

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@article{arxiv.1111.1092,
  title  = {A finite volume scheme for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations},
  author = {Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard and Francis Filbet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1092},
  year   = {2019}
}