A Novel Meshfree Strategy for a Viscous Wave Equation With Variable Coefficients

Wang, Fuzhang; Zhang, Juan; Ahmad, Imtiaz; Farooq, Aamir; Ahmad, Hijaz

doi:10.3389/fphy.2021.701512

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Front. Phys., 02 July 2021
Sec. Interdisciplinary Physics
Volume 9 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.701512

A Novel Meshfree Strategy for a Viscous Wave Equation With Variable Coefficients

Fuzhang Wang^1,2

Juan Zhang²*

Imtiaz Ahmad³ www.frontiersin.org

Aamir Farooq⁴

Hijaz Ahmad⁵

¹College of Mathematics and Statistics, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China
²School of Computer Science and Technology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China
³Department of Mathematics, University of Swabi, Swabi, Pakistan
⁴Department of Mathematics, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
⁵Section of Mathematics, International Telematic University Uninettuno, Roma, Italy

A one-step new general mesh free scheme, which is based on radial basis functions, is presented for a viscous wave equation with variable coefficients. By constructing a simple extended radial basis function, it can be directly applied to wave propagation by using the strong form-based mesh free collocation method. There is no need to deal with the time-dependent variable particularly. Numerical results for a viscous wave equation with variable coefficients show that the proposed mesh free collocation method is simple with accurate solutions.

1 Introduction

The wave propagation exists in an interesting class of problems, such as the micro-scale heat transfer, seismic data acquisition and processing, etc. Acoustic wave modeling is an essential part of the technique of acoustic imaging [1]. Such problems have been widely investigated because of their realistic physical background. Related works can be found in [2] and references therein.

Since the governing equation of the problem considered is complex, and the corresponding physical domain or the boundary conditions are tangle some, the analytical solutions are almost inaccessible for most practical engineering problems [3–7]. The development of accurate and efficient numerical methods becomes an important research topic in computational physics.

The earliest numerical methods for wave equations include the finite difference method [8], the finite element method [9], the boundary element method [10] and the finite volume method [11]. It should be noted that most of the existed numerical methods are still based on the finite difference method (FDM) [12, 13], which lead to two-step finite difference approximations. More specifically, the finite difference method is used to deal with the time variable, and the rest procedures are finished by the other numerical methods. Coupled with the FDM, the radial basis function (RBF) collocation methods are widely-used to many problems thanks to their mesh free features. Akers et al. [14] investigated a radial basis function-finite differencing (RBF-FD) scheme which is applied to the initial value problem of the Benjamin-Ono equation. Bhardwaj and Kumar [15] used the FDM-based mesh less approach for the numerical solution of the nonlinear diffusion-wave equation. Based on the integrated radial basis functions and a finite difference scheme, the regularized long-wave equations are investigated in [16, 17]. Oruc [18] examined numerical solutions of Zakharov-Rubenchik system by using radial basis function finite difference (RBF-FD) mesh less method and an explicit Runge-Kutta method. The time discretization is accomplished by means of an implicit method based on the theta-weighted and finite difference methods, while the spatial discretization is described with the help of the finite difference scheme derived from the local radial basis function method. Recently, Lu et al [19] used the radial basis function mesh less method to solve the irregular region interface problem. Ranocha et al [20] created new classes of fully-discrete conservative methods for several nonlinear dispersive wave equations.

In order to simplify the conventional two-step solution process, Netuzhylov and Zilian [21] proposed a space-time mesh free collocation method for solving partial differential equations by a consistent discretization in both space and time. Motivated by this work, we aim to provide a truly mesh free method with one-step approximation, which is based on the RBFs, for a viscous wave equation with variable coefficients. Compared with the traditional FDM-based two-step methods, the newly-proposed one-step direct mesh free method is truly mesh free with easy implementation. The computational efficiency is excellent and the computational accuracy is mainly determined by numerical methods for wave field simulation.

The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, formulation of the direct radial basis function with space-time Euclidean distance is briefly introduced. This is realized by considering time-dependent variable as normal time-independent variable. Thus, the time-dependent variable can be treated easily during the whole solution process. Section 3 presents the methodology for a viscous wave equation with variable coefficients under initial condition and boundary conditions. Numerical results with detailed discussions are presented for the accuracy of the proposed mesh free method in Section 4. Section 5 concludes this paper with some additional remarks.

2 Problem Description

Let’s consider a viscous wave equation on a bounded two-dimensional domain $Ω \subset R^{2}$

L u \equiv \frac{\partial^{2} u}{\partial t^{2}} + α \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} - \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \nabla \cdot (Q \nabla u) - \nabla \cdot (A \nabla u) = f (x, y, t), t > 0 (1)

where α is a nonnegative coefficient, f is a source term, $Q = diag (q_{1}, q_{2})$ and $A = diag (a_{1}, a_{2})$ are diagonal, nonnegative diffusion tensors with $q_{1}, q_{2}, a_{1}, a_{2}$ constant or variable coefficients. Solution to Eq. 1 requires the extra initial conditions

u (x, y, 0) = f_{1} (x, y), (x, y) \in Ω (2)

u_{t} (x, y, 0) = f_{2} (x, y), (x, y) \in Ω (3)

and boundary conditions

B u (x, y, t) = f_{3} (x, y, t), (x, y) \in \partial Ω, t > 0 (4)

with $f_{1} (x, y)$ , $f_{2} (x, y)$ and $f_{3} (x, y, t)$ the given functions. B is a boundary operator. One should seek for the numerical solution of unknown function $u (x, y, t)$ .

A variety of numerical methods have been investigated for Eqs. 1–4. Most of them are based on the finite difference method, which lead to two-step methods. More specifically, the finite difference method is used to deal with the time domain, which will lead to elliptic-type problems. Then the rest work is done by the other numerical methods. In order to improve the perplexing two-step methods, we propose a direct one-step collocation method by using an extended RBFs in the following section.

3 Formulation of the Extended Radial Basis Functions

The radial basis functions (RBFs) are extremely powerful tool for solving partial differential equations. It is “isotropic” for Euclidean spaces. The Kansa’s method [22, 23] is one of the most famous RBFs. It is also called the multi-quadrics RBF with the expression [24].

ϕ_{m q} (r_{j}) = \sqrt{1 + {(ε r_{j})}^{2}} (5)

where $r_{j}$ is the Euclidean distance between two points. ε is the RBF shape parameter which can balance the solution accuracy.

As is known to all, a linear combination of RBFs can provide the numerical solutions for boundary value problems governed by elliptic partial differential equations. In literatures, this can be not directly used to solve boundary value problems governed by parabolic or hyperbolic partial differential equations.

To make the direct applications possible, the time variable is treated equally with the space variables. More specifically, we construct a simple direct radial basis function by combining the two-dimensional point $(x, y)$ and the one-dimensional time variable t as a three-dimensional point $(x, y, t)$ for the space-time domain $Ω \times t$ . For collocation points generation, the time variable is treated equally to the space variables x and y. For a simple example, the collocation points in the $x -$ and $y -$ directions are evenly chosen with fineness $h_{x} = h_{y} = 1 / n$ . The time-step for the rest $t -$ direction is chosen as $Δ t = 1 / n$ .

Similar to the traditional multi-quadric RBF, the extended radial basis function (ERBF) has the form

φ_{m q} (r_{j}) = \sqrt{1 + ε^{2} r_{j}^{2}} = \sqrt{1 + ε^{2} {(x - x_{j})}^{2} + ε^{2} {(y - y_{j})}^{2} + ε^{2} {(t - t_{j})}^{2}} (6)

where $r_{j} = ‖ P - P_{j} ‖$ represents the distance between two space-time coordinates $P = (x, y, t)$ and $P_{j} = (x_{j}, y_{j}, t_{j})$ .

In literatures [25–27], the other researchers have proposed some space-time radial basis functions with different types. We have done many investigations and found that they are not suitable to deal with the wave equations.

4 Implementation of the Extended Radial Basis Function

4.1 The Extended Radial Basis Function Solution Procedure

To solve the problem described by Eqs. 1–4, we use the ERBF to present the detailed procedure. Based on the definition of ERBF, Eqs 1–4 can be simulated by a one-step numerical method. The unknown function $u (x, y, t)$ can be approximated by the following expression

\bar{u} (\cdot) \approx \sum_{j = 1}^{N} λ_{j} φ_{m q} (\cdot_{j}), (7)

where the unknown coefficients ${λ_{j}}_{j = 1}^{n}$ should be solved.

To illustrate the ERBF solution procedure, the internal points ${P_{i} = (x_{i}, y_{i}, t_{i})}_{i = 1}^{N_{I}}$ are located inside the physical domain and initial boundary points ${P_{i} = (x_{i}, y_{i}, t_{i})}_{i = N_{I} + 1}^{N_{I} + N_{t}}$ and boundary points ${P_{i} = (x_{i}, y_{i}, t_{i})}_{i = N_{I} + N_{t} + 1}^{N}$ are located on the physical boundary. By substituting Eq. 7 into Eqs. 1–3, we have

\sum_{j = 1}^{N} λ_{j} L φ_{m q} (P_{i}, P_{j}) = f (P_{i}), i = 1, \dots, N_{I}, (8)

\sum_{j = 1}^{N} λ_{j} φ_{m q} (P_{i}, P_{j}) = f_{1} (P_{i}), i = N_{I} + 1, \dots, N_{I} + N_{t}, (9)

\sum_{j = 1}^{N} λ_{j} \frac{\partial φ_{m q} (P_{i}, P_{j})}{\partial t} = f_{2} (P_{i}), i = N_{I} + N_{t} + 1, \dots, N_{I} + 2 N_{t}, (10)

\sum_{j = 1}^{N} λ_{j} B φ_{m q} (P_{i}, P_{j}) = f_{3} (P_{i}), i = N_{I} + 2 N_{t} + 1, \dots, N, (11)

where

L φ_{m q} = \frac{\partial^{2} φ_{m q}}{\partial t^{2}} + α \frac{\partial φ_{m q}}{\partial t} - - \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \nabla \cdot (Q \nabla φ_{m q}) - \nabla \cdot (A \nabla φ_{m q}) . (12)

This is similar with the traditional strong-form collocation approach. We note that the two initial conditions require double initial boundary points, so the total collocation point number is $N = N_{I} + 2 N_{t} + N_{b}$ .

Eqs. 8–11 has the following matrix form

MΛ = F, (13)

where

M = [\begin{matrix} M_{11} & M_{12} & M_{13} & M_{14} \\ M_{21} & M_{22} & M_{23} & M_{24} \\ M_{31} & M_{32} & M_{33} & M_{34} \\ M_{41} & M_{42} & M_{43} & M_{44} \end{matrix}] (14)

are $N \times N$ known matrix. $Λ$ and $F$ are $N \times 1$ vectors.

The unknown vector $Λ$ in Eq. 13 can be solved by the direct solver in any software codes. Substitute the coefficients into Eq. 7, we get the numerical solution for any points in the whole physical domain.

4.2 Algorithms of the Extended Radial Basis Function

For the solution procedure of the ERBF, we summarize the corresponding simple algorithm steps as below.

Step 1. Enter the prescribed functions $f (x, y, t)$ , $f_{1} (x, y)$ , $f_{2} (x, y)$ , $f_{3} (x, y, t)$ , and the coefficients $q_{1}$ , $q_{1}$ , $a_{1}$ , $a_{2}$ .

Step 2. Select the point parameter n which is connected with the total collocation number N.

Step 3. Generate the collocation points $(x_{i}, y_{i}, t_{i}), I = 1,2, \dots,, N$ with internal points ${(x_{i}, y_{i}, t_{i})}_{i = 1}^{N_{I}}$ , initial boundary points ${(x_{i}, y_{i}, t_{i})}_{i = N_{I} + 1}^{N_{I} + N_{t}}$ and boundary points ${(x_{i}, y_{i}, t_{i})}_{i = N_{I} + N_{t} + 1}^{N}$ .

Step 4. Compute the interpolation matrix $M$ and the right-hand vector $F$ .

Step 5. Solve $MΛ = F$ .

Step 6. Substitute $Λ$ into (Eq. 7) to construct the numerical solution $\bar{u} (x, y, t)$ .

In this paper, the MATLAB is used to realize the algorithms of ERBF.

5 Numerical Experiments

In order to study the convergence of ERBF, the relative errors between ERBF and analytical solutions are calculated. It should be noted that the parameter ε in the ERBF should be chosen first. The optimal choice is similar with the traditional RBFs. For more details about this topic, we refer readers to [24, 28, 29] and references therein. In this paper the parameter is determined with an prior determination. More specifically, the collocation points are fixed first to find the quasi-optimal parameter, after which it will be used for the rest computations.

We consider the problem with $α = 1$ , $Q = A = I$ , the corresponding exact solution is

u (x, y, t) = [1 + \frac{1}{2} \sin (π^{2} t)] \sin (5 π x) \sin (3 π y) . (15)

The source function $f (x, y, t)$ can be deduced from the governing Eq. 1

\begin{matrix} u (x, y, t) = π^{2} \sin (5 π x) \sin (3 π y) [34 + \dots \\ (\frac{1}{2} + 17 π^{2}) \cos (π^{2} t) + (17 - \frac{1}{2} π^{2}) \sin (π^{2} t)] . \end{matrix} (16)

For fixed collocation point number parameter $n = 8$ , the total collocation point is 729, and the number of points in each dimension is $9 \times 9 \times 9$ in x, y and t dimensions, respectively. To reveal the numerical solution accuracy of the proposed method, the wave propagation of nodes is calculated by theoretical formula at $t = 0.5 s$ and $t = 0.9 s$ , respectively. From Table 1 and Table 2, we find that numerical solutions of the proposed ERBF are very close with the analytical solutions for different points. The corresponding absolute errors remain the same at $t = 0.5 s$ . And the corresponding absolute errors is a little large for some points, but it is still accurate enough for practical problems.

TABLE 1

TABLE 1. The comparison of the absolute errors at t = 0.5 s.

TABLE 2

TABLE 2. The comparison of the absolute errors at t = 0.9 s.

Figure 1 describes the contour plots of the numerical solutions and analytical solutions at time $t = 0.5$ . We find that the numerical solutions agree very well with the analytical solutions. It should be noted that the results for the other times have the same accurate results as shown in Figure 1.

FIGURE 1

FIGURE 1. Contour plot of exact solutions (A) and numerical solutions (B).

Tables 1, 2 show that the numerical results coincide very well with the analytical solutions for both $t = 0.5 s$ and $t = 0.9 s$ . For time $t = 0.5 s$ , the absolute errors for different points are almost the same. For the time $t = 0.9 s$ , the absolute errors for points $(0.1, 0.1)$ and $(0.9, 0.9)$ are more accurate than the other points. Also, it should be pointed out that the ERBF results are more accurate than the other numerical methods [30, 31]. The corresponding comparison is revealed in Table 3 by using the maximum absolute error $L^{\infty}$ . From which we can see that the time step of the proposed ERBF $1 / 9$ is larger than the other two methods 0.02, but the corresponding absolute error of the ERBF is smaller than the other two methods. And the computational time of the ERBF (CPU = 0.92 s) is less than the method (CPU = 15.70 s) used in [30].

TABLE 3

TABLE 3. Maximum absolute error $L^{\infty}$ .

6 Conclusion

A one-step new general mesh free scheme for solving a viscous wave equation with variable coefficients is proposed. It is based on the strong form-based mesh free collocation method in conjunction with the radial basis functions. Numerical results show that the mesh free method is more simple than the other numerical methods with solution accuracy maintained. The proposed method with the localized technique can be extended to large-scale problems easily.

Data Availability Statement

The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.

Author Contributions

FW designed the whole paper; JZ and IA wrote the manuscript; AF and HA analyzed experimental results.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Funding

The work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (Project No. 1908085QA09) and the University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province (Project No. KJ2019A0591).

Supplementary Material

The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.701512/full#supplementary-material

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Keywords: radial basis functions, wave equations, numerical simulation, meshfree methods, variable

Citation: Wang F, Zhang J, Ahmad I, Farooq A and Ahmad H (2021) A Novel Meshfree Strategy for a Viscous Wave Equation With Variable Coefficients. Front. Phys. 9:701512. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2021.701512

Received: 28 April 2021; Accepted: 08 June 2021;
Published: 02 July 2021.

Edited by:

Umberto Lucia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Reviewed by:

Lihua Wang, Tongji University, China
Aatish Anshuman, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Hanen Jrad, National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia

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*Correspondence: Juan Zhang, zj801106@163.com

BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

A Novel Meshfree Strategy for a Viscous Wave Equation With Variable Coefficients

1 Introduction

2 Problem Description

3 Formulation of the Extended Radial Basis Functions

4 Implementation of the Extended Radial Basis Function

4.1 The Extended Radial Basis Function Solution Procedure

4.2 Algorithms of the Extended Radial Basis Function

5 Numerical Experiments

6 Conclusion

Data Availability Statement

Author Contributions

Conflict of Interest

Funding

Supplementary Material

References

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