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Modeling the diffusion of heat energy within composites of homogeneous materials using the uncertainty principle. (English) Zbl 1404.65194
Summary: The goal of this paper is to develop a highly accurate and efficient numerical method for the solution of a time-dependent partial differential equation with a piecewise constant coefficient, on a finite interval with periodic boundary conditions. The resulting algorithm can be used, for example, to model the diffusion of heat energy in one space dimension, in the case where the spatial domain represents a medium consisting of two homogeneous materials. The resulting model has, to our knowledge, not yet been solved in closed form through analytical methods, and is difficult to solve using existing numerical methods, thus suggesting an alternative approach. The approach presented in this paper is to represent the solution as a linear combination of wave functions that change frequencies at the interfaces between different materials. It is demonstrated through numerical experiments that using the Uncertainty Principle to construct a basis of such functions, in conjunction with a spectral method, a mathematical model for heat diffusion through different materials can be solved much more efficiently than with conventional time-stepping methods.

##### MSC:
 65M70 Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 65N25 Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs 35P10 Completeness of eigenfunctions and eigenfunction expansions in context of PDEs 35P20 Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs 35K05 Heat equation
##### Software:
Matlab; MATLAB ODE suite; ode113; Ode15s; ode23; ode23s; ode45
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