An efficient collocation method for long-time simulation of heat and mass transport on evolving surfaces

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient collocation method which combines the generalized finite difference method (GFDM) with the Krylov deferred correction (KDC) method for the long-time simulation of heat and mass transport on evolving surfaces. The KDC method utilizes a pseudo-spectral-type temporal collocation formulation to discretize the time-dependent surface heat and mass transport equation in each time marching step, where the time derivatives at the collocation points are introduced as the new unknown variables. A low-order time marching scheme is then applied as an effective preconditioner in the Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov framework to decouple the spatial surface PDEs at different collocation nodes. Each decoupled surface PDE is then solved by the meshless GFDM, where both the continuous-form evolving surfaces defined by parametric equations and discretized-form evolving surfaces composed of point clouds are considered in the GFDM spatial discretization. Numerical experiments show that the combined GFDM-KDC solver is a promising numerical scheme for long-time evolution simulation of heat and mass transport on intractable evolving surfaces.