A nodally bound-preserving finite element method for reaction-convection-diffusion equations

Amiri, Abdolreza and Barrenechea, Gabriel and Pryer, Tristan (2024) A nodally bound-preserving finite element method for reaction-convection-diffusion equations. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences. pp. 1-33. ISSN 0218-2025 (https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202524500283)

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Abstract

This paper introduces a novel approach to approximate a broad range of reaction-convection-diffusion equations using conforming finite element methods while providing a discrete solution respecting the physical bounds given by the underlying differential equation. The main result of this work demonstrates that the numerical solution achieves accuracy of (ℎ) in the energy norm, where represents the underlying polynomial degree. To validate the approach, a series of numerical experiments is conducted for various problem instances. Comparisons with the linear continuous interior penalty stabilised method, and the algebraic flux-correction scheme (for the piecewise linear finite element case) have been carried out, where we can observe the favourable performance of the current approach.