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Laplace equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the 2D axisymmetric coordinate system

Laplacian test cases with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the 2D axisymmetric coordinate system.

The aim of this test case is to validate the discretization of the diffusive term of a cell advection/diffusion equation in the 2D axisymmetric coordinate system.

Configurations

Domain is rectangular, its opposite corner coordinates being \((0,0)\) and \((1,1)\).

We solve \(-\Delta T=f\) on the whole domain.

Using cylindrical coordinates, 2D solution of the problem is set to \(\cos(\pi r)\sin(\pi y)\). Right-end-side f is equal to \(2\pi^{2}\cos(\pi r)\sin(\pi y) + \dfrac{\pi}{r}\sin(\pi r)\sin(\pi y)\).

Boundary condition

The symmetry axis is in located on the left at \( r=0.5 \). The global boundary conditions are chosen as follows.

Boundary Condition Value
Top Dirichlet \( T = 0 \)
Bottom Dirichlet \( T = 0 \)
Other Boundaries Neumann \( \partial T = 0 \)
Figure 1: Elevation of the temperature field

Runtime parameters

Energy equation is used:

Comments

Second order spatial convergence is expected.

Results

The grid size starts from 40 in every direction to 640. Second order convergence is observed with \(L_\infty\), \(L_1\) or \(L_2\) norms.

2D results

Mesh Temperature Linf error Order Temperature L1 error Order Temperature L2 error Order
40 8.55732636e-04 n/a 2.69430910e-04 n/a 3.52892413e-04 n/a
80 2.14068698e-04 +1.9991 6.73389943e-05 +2.0004 8.81932983e-05 +2.0005
160 5.35256476e-05 +1.9998 1.68319461e-05 +2.0002 2.20464624e-05 +2.0001
320 1.33819414e-05 +1.9999 4.20792332e-06 +2.0000 5.51149922e-06 +2.0000
640 3.34551808e-06 +2.0000 1.05197011e-06 +2.0000 1.37786755e-06 +2.0000