Bulk-Surface Coupled PDE with an Open Boundary
This work addresses a specific mathematical problem in PDE analysis for researchers in computational mathematics, but it is incremental as it builds on existing techniques for boundary integral methods.
The authors tackled a bulk-surface coupled Laplace system with an open boundary by reformulating it as an integro-differential equation, proving solution existence and uniqueness, and developing a finite element method with rigorous error analysis, with numerical experiments confirming theoretical convergence rates.
We study a bulk-surface coupled Laplace system involving an embedded open boundary. The problem is reformulated as an integro-differential equation using boundary integral representations, for which we establish existence and uniqueness of the solution. A Wiener-Hopf technique is employed to study the solution regularity and derive asymptotic expressions for the edge singularity. Building on these results, we develop a finite element method that incorporates the singularity structure and provide a rigorous error analysis. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical convergence rates.