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Author: Stephan, Artur × End date: 2024 × Start date: 2020 × Type: article × WGL Institute: WIAS ×

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    Consistency and convergence for a family of finite volume discretizations of the Fokker–Planck operator
    (Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 2021) Heida, Martin; Kantner, Markus; Stephan, Artur
    We introduce a family of various finite volume discretization schemes for the Fokker–Planck operator, which are characterized by different Stolarsky weight functions on the edges. This family particularly includes the well-established Scharfetter–Gummel discretization as well as the recently developed square-root approximation (SQRA) scheme. We motivate this family of discretizations both from the numerical and the modeling point of view and provide a uniform consistency and error analysis. Our main results state that the convergence order primarily depends on the quality of the mesh and in second place on the choice of the Stolarsky weights. We show that the Scharfetter–Gummel scheme has the analytically best convergence properties but also that there exists a whole branch of Stolarsky means with the same convergence quality. We show by numerical experiments that for small convection the choice of the optimal representative of the discretization family is highly non-trivial, while for large gradients the Scharfetter–Gummel scheme stands out compared to the others.
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    EDP-convergence for nonlinear fast–slow reaction systems with detailed balance*
    (Bristol : IOP Publ., 2021) Mielke, Alexander; Peletier, Mark A.; Stephan, Artur
    We consider nonlinear reaction systems satisfying mass-action kinetics with slow and fast reactions. It is known that the fast-reaction-rate limit can be described by an ODE with Lagrange multipliers and a set of nonlinear constraints that ask the fast reactions to be in equilibrium. Our aim is to study the limiting gradient structure which is available if the reaction system satisfies the detailed-balance condition. The gradient structure on the set of concentration vectors is given in terms of the relative Boltzmann entropy and a cosh-type dissipation potential. We show that a limiting or effective gradient structure can be rigorously derived via EDP-convergence, i.e. convergence in the sense of the energy-dissipation principle for gradient flows. In general, the effective entropy will no longer be of Boltzmann type and the reactions will no longer satisfy mass-action kinetics.