Authors:
Yuri N. Skiba
1
and
Denis M. Filatov
2
Affiliations:
1
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
;
2
National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico
Keyword(s):
Simulation of environmental problems, Nonlinear diffusion, Split finite difference schemes.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Application Domains
;
Dynamical Systems Models and Methods
;
Ecological Modeling
;
Formal Methods
;
Mechanical Sciences: Fluid Dynamics, Solid Mechanics
;
Non-Linear Systems
;
Simulation and Modeling
Abstract:
A new numerical technique for the simulation of nonlinear diffusion processes on a sphere is developed. The core of our approach is to split the original equation's operator, thus reducing the two-dimensional problem to two one-dimentional problems. Further, we apply two different coordinate grids to cover the entire sphere for solving the split 1D problems. This allows avoiding the question of imposing adequate boundary conditions near the poles, which is always a serious problem when modelling on a sphere. Yet, therefore we can employ finite difference schemes of any even approximation order in space. The developed approach is cheap to implement from the computational point of view. Numerical experiments prove the suggested technique, simulating several diffusion phenomena with high accuracy.