Abstract
We investigate the performance of various discrete Hodge star operators for discrete exterior calculus (DEC) using circumcentric and barycentric dual meshes. The performance is evaluated through the DEC solution of Darcy and incompressible Navier–Stokes flows over surfaces. While the circumcentric Hodge operators may be favorable due to their diagonal structure, the barycentric (geometric) and the Galerkin Hodge operators have the advantage of admitting arbitrary simplicial meshes. Numerical experiments reveal that the barycentric and the Galerkin Hodge operators retain the numerical convergence order attained through the circumcentric (diagonal) Hodge operators. Furthermore, when the barycentric or the Galerkin Hodge operators are employed, a super-convergence behavior is observed for the incompressible flow solution over unstructured simplicial surface meshes generated by successive subdivision of coarser meshes. Insofar as the computational cost is concerned, the Darcy flow solutions exhibit a moderate increase in the solution time when using the barycentric or the Galerkin Hodge operators due to a modest decrease in the linear system sparsity. On the other hand, for the incompressible flow simulations, both the solution time and the linear system sparsity do not change for either the circumcentric or the barycentric and the Galerkin Hodge operators.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 118-125 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Computer-Aided Design |
Volume | 78 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 10 2016 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): URF/1/1401-01-01
Acknowledgements: This research was supported by the KAUST Office of Competitive Research Funds under Award No. URF/1/1401-01-01. The work of ANH was supported in part by NSF Grant No. CCF-1064429.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Computer Science Applications