TY - JOUR T1 - A Diagonally-Implicit Time Integration Scheme for Space-Time Moving Finite Elements AU - Bank , Randolph E. AU - Metti , Maximilian S. JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 3 SP - 360 EP - 383 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/09 SN - 37 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1805-m2017-0102 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/12728.html KW - TR-BDF2, Moving finite elements, Method of characteristics, Convection-dominated, Moving mesh methods, Error analysis. AB -

In this paper, we analyze and provide numerical experiments for a moving finite element method applied to convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. We follow a method of lines approach and utilize an underlying tensor-product finite element space that permits the mesh to evolve continuously in time and undergo discontinuous reconfigurations at discrete time steps. We employ the TR-BDF2 method as the time integrator for piecewise quadratic tensor-product spaces, and provide an almost symmetric error estimate for the procedure. Our numerical results validate the efficacy of these moving finite elements.