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11.2.2. Dirichlet Laplace Direct Method¶

keys: homogeneous Dirichlet bvp, double and single layer potential, unknown Neumann data

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from netgen.occ import *
from ngsolve import *
from ngsolve.webgui import Draw
from ngsolve.bem import *
from ngsolve.solvers import CG

Consider the Dirichlet boundary value problem

\[\begin{split}\left\{ \begin{array}{rcl l} \Delta u &=& 0, \quad &\Omega \subset \mathbb R^3\,,\\ \gamma_0 u&=& u_0, \quad &\Gamma = \partial \Omega\,.\end{array} \right.\end{split}\]

Let us choose the following ansatz for the solution \(u\in H^1(\Omega)\) (direct ansatz)

\[u(x) = \underbrace{ \int\limits_\Gamma \displaystyle{\frac{1}{4\,\pi}\, \frac{1}{\| x-y\|} } \, u_1(y)\, \mathrm{d}\sigma_y}_{\displaystyle{ \mathrm{ SL}(u_1) }} - \underbrace{ \int\limits_\Gamma \displaystyle{\frac{1}{4\,\pi}\, \frac{\langle n(y) , x-y\rangle }{\| x-y\|^3} } \, u_0(y)\, \mathrm{d}\sigma_y}_{\displaystyle{ \mathrm{DL}(u_0) }}\]

and solve for the Neumann data \(u_1 \in H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma)\) by the boundary element method, i.e.,

\[\forall \, v\in H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma): \quad \left\langle \gamma_0 \left(\mathrm{SL}(u_1)\right), v \right\rangle_{-\frac12}= \left\langle u_0, v\right\rangle_{-\frac12} + \left\langle \gamma_0 \left(\mathrm{DL}(u_0)\right), v\right\rangle_{-\frac12}\,.\]

Define the geometry \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^3\) and create a mesh:

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sp = Sphere( (0,0,0), 1)
mesh = Mesh( OCCGeometry(sp).GenerateMesh(maxh=0.2)).Curve(4)

Create the finite element spaces for \(H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma)\) and \(H^{\frac12}(\Gamma)\) according to the given mesh:

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fesL2 = SurfaceL2(mesh, order=3, dual_mapping=True)
u,v = fesL2.TnT()
fesH1 = H1(mesh, order=4)
uH1,vH1 = fesH1.TnT()
print ("ndofL2 = ", fesL2.ndof, "ndof H1 = ", fesH1.ndof)

ndofL2 =  7220 ndof H1 =  21241

Compute the interpolation of exact Dirichlet data \(u_0\) in finite element space:

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uexa = 1/ sqrt( (x-1)**2 + (y-1)**2 + (z-1)**2 )
u0 = GridFunction(fesH1)
u0.Interpolate (uexa)
Draw (u0, mesh, draw_vol=False, order=3);

The discretisation of the above variational formulation leads to a system of linear equations, ie

\[\mathrm{V} \, \mathrm{u}_1 = \left( \frac12 \,\mathrm{M} + \mathrm{K} \right) \, \mathrm{u}_0\,,\]

where the linear operators are as follows

\(\mathrm{V}\) is the single layer operator. \(\mathrm V\) is regular and symmetric.
\(\mathrm{M}\) is a mass matrix.
\(\mathrm{K}\) is the double layer operator.

We approximate the linear operators as hmatrices and solve for the Neumann data \(u_1\) with an iterative solver:

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u1 = GridFunction(fesL2)
pre = BilinearForm(u*v*ds, diagonal=True).Assemble().mat.Inverse()

with TaskManager():
    V = SingleLayerPotentialOperator(fesL2, intorder=12)

    M = BilinearForm( uH1 * v.Trace() * ds(bonus_intorder=3)).Assemble()
    K = DoubleLayerPotentialOperator(fesH1, fesL2, intorder=12)

    rhs = ( (0.5 * M.mat + K.mat)*u0.vec).Evaluate()
    CG(mat = V.mat, pre=pre, rhs = rhs, sol=u1.vec, tol=1e-8, maxsteps=50, initialize=False, printrates=True)

CG iteration 1, residual = 0.2688244350833476
CG iteration 2, residual = 0.06553517738161971
CG iteration 3, residual = 0.015537006646385411
CG iteration 4, residual = 0.0036775507940655736
CG iteration 5, residual = 0.0009473297863994265
CG iteration 6, residual = 0.0013803247805949837
CG iteration 7, residual = 0.00019659306335135593
CG iteration 8, residual = 5.781718855345146e-05
CG iteration 9, residual = 4.6435183689350824e-05
CG iteration 10, residual = 3.399771904939623e-05
CG iteration 11, residual = 1.705805250480956e-05
CG iteration 12, residual = 9.988909760850431e-06
CG iteration 13, residual = 4.669062220177481e-06
CG iteration 14, residual = 2.4878720517844388e-06
CG iteration 15, residual = 5.520659248709209e-06
CG iteration 16, residual = 2.0923516473981865e-06
CG iteration 17, residual = 1.9107087756536235e-06
CG iteration 18, residual = 1.7874572104804776e-06
CG iteration 19, residual = 9.145440804870125e-07
CG iteration 20, residual = 6.252906187712072e-07
CG iteration 21, residual = 5.04662933781496e-07
CG iteration 22, residual = 3.8856764990885824e-07
CG iteration 23, residual = 3.794584253683128e-07
CG iteration 24, residual = 8.134072802883558e-07
CG iteration 25, residual = 2.0911884077004886e-07
CG iteration 26, residual = 1.0088778212210165e-07
CG iteration 27, residual = 8.446741259139293e-08
CG iteration 28, residual = 5.0345322114617794e-08
CG iteration 29, residual = 5.5207582874225636e-08
CG iteration 30, residual = 2.6787682042152524e-08
CG iteration 31, residual = 5.112974888577527e-08
CG iteration 32, residual = 3.4604367379791446e-08
CG iteration 33, residual = 2.5818266443059465e-08
CG iteration 34, residual = 2.5905743117683384e-08
CG iteration 35, residual = 1.3211024685050781e-08
CG iteration 36, residual = 7.520154523888705e-09
CG iteration 37, residual = 4.500489926536451e-09
CG iteration 38, residual = 4.85949107021569e-09
CG iteration 39, residual = 3.0818753231048857e-09
CG iteration 40, residual = 3.5450891409040585e-09
CG iteration 41, residual = 5.558017451575356e-09
CG iteration 42, residual = 2.0672056317689337e-09

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Draw (u1, mesh, draw_vol=False, order=3);

Let’s have a look at the exact Neumann data and compute the error of the numerical solution:

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graduexa = CF( (uexa.Diff(x), uexa.Diff(y), uexa.Diff(z)) )
n = specialcf.normal(3)
u1exa = graduexa*n
Draw (u1exa, mesh, draw_vol=False, order=3);
print ("L2-error =", sqrt (Integrate ( (u1exa-u1)**2, mesh, BND)))

L2-error = 0.00024938694986464125

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