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Explicit integrators for nonlocal equations: The case of the Maxey-Riley-Gatignol equation


Authors: Divya Jaganathan, Rama Govindarajan and Vishal Vasan
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math.
MSC (2020): Primary 65R20, 45J05; Secondary 65L06, 76D07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1693
Published electronically: March 25, 2024
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Abstract: The Maxey-Riley-Gatignol (MRG) equation, which describes the dynamics of an inertial particle in nonuniform and unsteady flow, is an integro-differential equation with a memory term and its solution lacks a well-defined Taylor series at $t=0$. In particulate flows, one often seeks trajectories of millions of particles simultaneously, and the numerical solution to the MRG equation for each particle becomes prohibitively expensive due to its ever-rising memory costs. In this paper, we present an explicit numerical integrator for the MRG equation that inherits the benefits of standard time-integrators, namely a constant memory storage cost, a linear growth of operational effort with simulation time, and the ability to restart a simulation with the final state as the new initial condition. The integrator is based on a Markovian embedding of the MRG equation. The integrator and the embedding are consequences of a spectral representation of the solution to the linear MRG equation. We exploit these to extend the work of Cox and Matthews [J. Comput. Phys. 176 (2002), 430–455] and derive Runge-Kutta type iterative schemes of differing orders for the MRG equation. Our approach may be generalized to a large class of systems with memory effects.


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Divya Jaganathan
Affiliation: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India
ORCID: 0009-0008-7107-5655
Email: divya.jaganathan@icts.res.in

Rama Govindarajan
Affiliation: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India
MR Author ID: 600086
ORCID: 0009-0007-4794-4964
Email: rama@icts.res.in

Vishal Vasan
Affiliation: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India
MR Author ID: 992275
ORCID: 0000-0001-6588-6461
Email: vishal.vasan@icts.res.in

Received by editor(s): September 13, 2023
Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 3, 2024
Published electronically: March 25, 2024
Additional Notes: Research at TIFR is supported by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under Project No. RTI4001. The first author acknowledges the hospitality at KITP, Santa Barbara during the program Multiphase Flows in Geophysics and the Environment (2022) which was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958. The third author was supported through the SERB MATRICS Grant (MTR/2019/000609) from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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