Solving Partial Differential Equations on Evolving Surfaces via the Constrained Least-Squares and Grid-Based Particle Method

Abstract: We present a framework for solving partial different equations on evolving surfaces. Based on the grid-based particle method (GBPM) [18], the method can naturally resample the surface even under large deformation from the motion law. We introduce a new component in the local reconstruction step of the algorithm and demonstrate numerically that the modification can improve computational accuracy when a large curvature region is developed during evolution. The method also incorporates a recently developed constrained least-squares ghost sample points (CLS-GSP) formulation, which can lead to a better-conditioned discretized matrix for computing some surface differential operators. The proposed framework can incorporate many methods and link various approaches to the same problem. Several numerical experiments are carried out to show the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed method.