Wave equation

Consider the linear wave equation

\[\begin{aligned} \partial_t^2 u(t,x) &= \partial_x^2 u(t,x), && t \in (0,T), x \in (x_{min}, x_{max}), \\ u(0,x) &= u_0(x), && x \in (x_{min}, x_{max}), \\ \partial_t u(0,x) &= v_0(x), && x \in (x_{min}, x_{max}), \\ \text{boundary conditions}, &&& x \in \partial (x_{min}, x_{max}). \end{aligned}\]

SummationByPartsOperators.jl includes a pre-built semidiscretization of this equation: WaveEquationNonperiodicSemidiscretization. Have a look at the source code if you want to dig deeper. In particular, you can find applications of derivative_left, derivative_right mul_transpose_derivative_left!, and mul_transpose_derivative_right!. Below is an example demonstrating how to use this semidiscretization.

using SummationByPartsOperators, OrdinaryDiffEq
using LaTeXStrings; using Plots: Plots, plot, plot!, savefig

# general parameters
xmin = -1.
xmax = +1.
tspan = (0., 8.0)
u0_func(x) = exp(-20x^2)
v0_func(x) = zero(x)
# HomogeneousNeumann, HomogeneousDirichlet, and NonReflecting BCs are available
left_bc  = Val(:HomogeneousNeumann)
right_bc = Val(:HomogeneousDirichlet)

# setup spatial semidiscretization
D2 = derivative_operator(MattssonSvärdShoeybi2008(), derivative_order=2,
                         accuracy_order=4, xmin=xmin, xmax=xmax, N=101)
semi = WaveEquationNonperiodicSemidiscretization(D2, left_bc, right_bc)
ode = semidiscretize(v0_func, u0_func, semi, tspan)

# solve second-order ODE using a Runge-Kutta-Nyström method
sol = solve(ode, DPRKN6(), saveat=range(first(tspan), stop=last(tspan), length=200))

# visualize the result
plot(xguide=L"x")
plot!(evaluate_coefficients(sol[end].x[2], semi), label=L"u")
plot!(evaluate_coefficients(sol[end].x[1], semi), label=L"\partial_t u")
savefig("example_wave_equation.png");

"/home/runner/work/SummationByPartsOperators.jl/SummationByPartsOperators.jl/docs/build/tutorials/example_wave_equation.png"

Advanced visualization of different boundary conditions

Let's create animations of the numerical solutions for different boundary conditions.

using Printf; using Plots: Animation, frame, gif

function create_gif(left_bc::Val{LEFT_BC}, right_bc::Val{RIGHT_BC}) where {LEFT_BC, RIGHT_BC}
    xmin = -1.
    xmax = +1.
    tspan = (0., 8.0)
    u0_func(x) = exp(-20x^2)
    v0_func(x) = zero(x)

    D2 = derivative_operator(MattssonSvärdShoeybi2008(), derivative_order=2,
                            accuracy_order=4, xmin=xmin, xmax=xmax, N=101)
    semi = WaveEquationNonperiodicSemidiscretization(D2, left_bc, right_bc)
    ode = semidiscretize(v0_func, u0_func, semi, tspan)

    sol = solve(ode, DPRKN6(), saveat=range(first(tspan), stop=last(tspan), length=200))

    anim = Animation()
    idx = 1
    x, u = evaluate_coefficients(sol[idx].x[2], D2)
    fig = plot(x, u, xguide=L"x", yguide=L"u", xlim=extrema(x), ylim=(-1.05, 1.05),
              label="", title=@sprintf("\$t = %6.2f \$", sol.t[idx]))
    for idx in 1:length(sol.t)
        fig[1] = x, sol.u[idx].x[2]
        plot!(title=@sprintf("\$t = %6.2f \$", sol.t[idx]))
        frame(anim)
    end
    gif(anim, "wave_equation_$(LEFT_BC)_$(RIGHT_BC).gif")
end

create_gif(Val(:HomogeneousNeumann), Val(:HomogeneousNeumann))

create_gif(Val(:HomogeneousNeumann), Val(:HomogeneousDirichlet))

create_gif(Val(:HomogeneousNeumann), Val(:NonReflecting))

Package versions

These results were obtained using the following versions.

using InteractiveUtils
versioninfo()

using Pkg
Pkg.status(["SummationByPartsOperators", "OrdinaryDiffEq"],
           mode=PKGMODE_MANIFEST)

Julia Version 1.6.7
Commit 3b76b25b64 (2022-07-19 15:11 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-11.0.1 (ORCJIT, generic)
Environment:
  JULIA_PKG_SERVER_REGISTRY_PREFERENCE = eager
      Status `~/work/SummationByPartsOperators.jl/SummationByPartsOperators.jl/docs/Manifest.toml`
  [1dea7af3] OrdinaryDiffEq v6.51.2
  [9f78cca6] SummationByPartsOperators v0.5.70 `~/work/SummationByPartsOperators.jl/SummationByPartsOperators.jl`