Bajars, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7601-8694, Chappell, DJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5819-0271, Hartmann, T and Tanner, G, 2017. Improved approximation of phase-space densities on triangulated domains using Discrete Flow Mapping with p-refinement. Journal of Scientific Computing, 72, pp. 1290-1312. ISSN 0885-7474
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Abstract
We consider the approximation of the phase-space flow of a dynamical system on a triangulated surface using an approach known as Discrete Flow Mapping. Such flows are of interest throughout statistical mechanics, but the focus here is on flows arising from ray tracing approximations of linear wave equations. An orthogonal polynomial basis approximation of the phase-space density is applied in both the position and direction coordinates, in contrast with previous studies where piecewise constant functions have typically been applied for the spatial approximation. In order to improve the tractability of an orthogonal polynomial approximation in both phase-space coordinates, we propose a careful strategy for computing the propagation operator. For the favourable case of a Legendre polynomial basis we show that the integrals in the definition of the propagation operator may be evaluated analytically with respect to position and via a spectrally convergent quadrature rule for the direction coordinate. A generally applicable spectral quadrature scheme for integration with respect to both coordinates is also detailed for completeness. Finally, we provide numerical results that motivate the use of p-refinement in the orthogonal polynomial basis.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Publication Title: | Journal of Scientific Computing |
Creators: | Bajars, J., Chappell, D.J., Hartmann, T. and Tanner, G. |
Publisher: | Springer |
Date: | September 2017 |
Volume: | 72 |
ISSN: | 0885-7474 |
Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1007/s10915-017-0397-8 DOI 397 Publisher Item Identifier |
Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology |
Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
Date Added: | 13 Mar 2017 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2020 15:16 |
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30375 |
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