Real function spaces

Real function spaces#

Author: Jørgen S. Dokken

License: MIT

In this example we will show how to use the “real” function space to solve a singular Poisson problem.

Mathematical formulation#

The problem at hand is: Find \(u \in H^1(\Omega)\) such that

\[\begin{split} \begin{align} -\Delta u &= f \quad \text{in } \Omega, \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial n} &= g \quad \text{on } \partial \Omega, \\ \int_\Omega u &= h. \end{align} \end{split}\]

Lagrange multiplier#

We start by considering the equivalent optimization problem: Find \(u \in H^1(\Omega)\) such that

\[ \begin{align} \mathop{\mathrm{arg\,min}}_{u \in H^1(\Omega)}~J(u) = \mathop{\mathrm{arg\,min}}_{u \in H^1(\Omega)}~\frac{1}{2}\int_\Omega \vert \nabla u \cdot \nabla u \vert \mathrm{d}x - \int_\Omega f u \mathrm{d}x - \int_{\partial \Omega} g u \mathrm{d}s, \end{align} \]

such that

\[ \begin{align} \int_\Omega u = h. \end{align} \]

We introduce a Lagrange multiplier \(\lambda\) to enforce the constraint:

\[ \begin{align} \mathop{\mathrm{arg\,min}}_{u \in H^1(\Omega), \lambda\in \mathbb{R}}~\mathcal{L}(u, \lambda) = \mathop{\mathrm{arg\,min}}_{u \in H^1(\Omega), \lambda\in \mathbb{R}} J(u) + \lambda (\int_\Omega u \mathrm{d}x-h). \end{align} \]

We then compute the optimality conditions for the problem above

\[\begin{split} \begin{align} \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial u}[\delta u] &= \int_\Omega \nabla u \cdot \nabla \delta u \mathrm{d}x + \lambda\int \delta u \mathrm{d}x - \int_\Omega f \delta u ~\mathrm{d}x - \int_{\partial \Omega} g \delta u~\mathrm{d}s = 0, \\ \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \lambda}[\delta \lambda] &=\delta \lambda (\int_\Omega u \mathrm{d}x -h)= 0. \end{align} \end{split}\]

We write the weak formulation:

\[\begin{split} \begin{align} \int_\Omega \nabla u \cdot \nabla \delta u~\mathrm{d}x + \int_\Omega \lambda \delta u~\mathrm{d}x &= \int_\Omega f \delta u~\mathrm{d}x + \int_{\partial \Omega} g v \mathrm{d}s\\ \int_\Omega u \delta \lambda \mathrm{d}x &= h \delta \lambda . \end{align} \end{split}\]

where we have moved \(\delta\lambda\) into the integral as it is a spatial constant.

Implementation#

We start by import the necessary modules

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from packaging.version import Version
from mpi4py import MPI
from petsc4py import PETSc
import dolfinx.fem.petsc

import numpy as np
from scifem import create_real_functionspace, assemble_scalar
from scifem.petsc import apply_lifting_and_set_bc
import ufl
import pyvista

We start by creating the domain using dolfinx and derive the source terms \(f\), \(g\) and \(h\) from our manufactured solution using ufl. For this example we will use the following exact solution

\[ \begin{align} u_{exact}(x, y) = 0.3y^2 + \sin(2\pi x). \end{align} \]
M = 20
mesh = dolfinx.mesh.create_unit_square(
    MPI.COMM_WORLD, M, M, dolfinx.mesh.CellType.triangle, dtype=np.float64
)
V = dolfinx.fem.functionspace(mesh, ("Lagrange", 1))


def u_exact(x):
    return 0.3 * x[1] ** 2 + ufl.sin(2 * ufl.pi * x[0])


x = ufl.SpatialCoordinate(mesh)
n = ufl.FacetNormal(mesh)
g = ufl.dot(ufl.grad(u_exact(x)), n)
f = -ufl.div(ufl.grad(u_exact(x)))
h = assemble_scalar(u_exact(x) * ufl.dx)

Creating the real function space and mixed space#

We then create the Lagrange multiplier space using scifem.create_real_functionspace(). This creates a dolfinx.fem.FunctionSpace with a single degree of freedom (constant) over the whole domain.

R = create_real_functionspace(mesh)

Next, we can create a mixed-function space for our problem

Note on DOLFINx versions

The API for creating blocked problems in DOLFINx has vastly improved over the last few versions. It is recommended to use DOLFINx v0.9.0 or later, where one can use ufl.MixedFunctionSpace to create a mixed-space of M number of spaces. One can then use ufl.TrialFunctions() and ufl.TestFunctions() as one would do with a basix.ufl.mixed_element().

if dolfinx.__version__ == "0.8.0":
    u = ufl.TrialFunction(V)
    lmbda = ufl.TrialFunction(R)
    du = ufl.TestFunction(V)
    dl = ufl.TestFunction(R)
elif Version(dolfinx.__version__) >= Version("0.9.0.0"):
    W = ufl.MixedFunctionSpace(V, R)
    u, lmbda = ufl.TrialFunctions(W)
    du, dl = ufl.TestFunctions(W)
else:
    raise RuntimeError("Unsupported version of dolfinx")

Defining and assembling the variational problem#

We can now define the variational problem

zero = dolfinx.fem.Constant(mesh, dolfinx.default_scalar_type(0.0))

a00 = ufl.inner(ufl.grad(u), ufl.grad(du)) * ufl.dx
a01 = ufl.inner(lmbda, du) * ufl.dx
a10 = ufl.inner(u, dl) * ufl.dx
L0 = ufl.inner(f, du) * ufl.dx + ufl.inner(g, du) * ufl.ds
L1 = ufl.inner(zero, dl) * ufl.dx

a = [[a00, a01], [a10, None]]
L = [L0, L1]
a_compiled = dolfinx.fem.form(a)
L_compiled = dolfinx.fem.form(L)

Note that we have defined the variational form in a block form, and that we have not included \(h\) in the variational form. We will enforce this once we have assembled the right hand side vector. We can now assemble the matrix and vector usig dolfinx.fem.petsc.assemble_matrix() and dolfinx.fem.petsc.assemble_vector().

try:
    A = dolfinx.fem.petsc.assemble_matrix_block(a_compiled)
except AttributeError:
    A = dolfinx.fem.petsc.assemble_matrix(a_compiled)
A.assemble()

On the main branch of DOLFINx, the assemble_vector function for blocked spaces has been rewritten to reflect how it works for standard assembly and nest assembly. This means that lifting is applied manually. In this case, with no Dirichlet BC, we could skip those steps. However, for clarity we include them here.

bcs = []
main_assembly = False
try:
    b = dolfinx.fem.petsc.assemble_vector_block(L_compiled, a_compiled, bcs=bcs)
except AttributeError:
    main_assembly = True
    b = dolfinx.fem.petsc.assemble_vector(L_compiled, kind="mpi")
    apply_lifting_and_set_bc(b, a_compiled, bcs=bcs)

Next, we modify the second part of the block to contain h We start by enforcing the multiplier constraint \(h\) by modifying the right hand side vector. On the main branch, this is greatly simplified

uh = dolfinx.fem.Function(V, name="u")

if main_assembly:
    # We start by inserting the value in the real space
    rh = dolfinx.fem.Function(R)
    rh.x.array[0] = h
    # Next we need to add this value to the existing right hand side vector.
    # Therefore we create assign 0s to the primal space
    b_real_space = b.duplicate()
    uh.x.array[:] = 0
    # Transfer the data to `b_real_space`
    dolfinx.fem.petsc.assign([uh, rh], b_real_space)
    # And accumulate the values in the right hand side vector
    b.axpy(1, b_real_space)
    # We destroy the temporary work vector after usage
    b_real_space.destroy()
else:
    from dolfinx.cpp.la.petsc import scatter_local_vectors, get_local_vectors
    if Version(dolfinx.__version__) < Version("0.9.0"):
        maps = [(V.dofmap.index_map, V.dofmap.index_map_bs), (R.dofmap.index_map, R.dofmap.index_map_bs)]
    else:
        maps = [(Wi.dofmap.index_map, Wi.dofmap.index_map_bs) for Wi in W.ufl_sub_spaces()]

    b_local = get_local_vectors(b, maps)
    b_local[1][:] = h
    scatter_local_vectors(
            b,
            b_local,
            maps,
        )
    b.ghostUpdate(addv=PETSc.InsertMode.INSERT, mode=PETSc.ScatterMode.FORWARD)

Solving the linear system#

We can now solve the linear system using petsc4py.

ksp = PETSc.KSP().create(mesh.comm)
ksp.setOperators(A)
ksp.setType("preonly")
pc = ksp.getPC()
pc.setType("lu")
pc.setFactorSolverType("mumps")

if main_assembly:
    xh = b.duplicate()
else:
    xh = dolfinx.fem.petsc.create_vector_block(L_compiled)

ksp.solve(b, xh)
xh.ghostUpdate(addv=PETSc.InsertMode.INSERT, mode=PETSc.ScatterMode.FORWARD)

Finally, we extract the solution u from the blocked system and compute the error

uh = dolfinx.fem.Function(V, name="u")
if main_assembly:
    dolfinx.fem.petsc.assign(xh, [uh, rh])
else:
    x_local = get_local_vectors(xh, maps)
    uh.x.array[: len(x_local[0])] = x_local[0]
    uh.x.scatter_forward()

We destroy all PETSc objects

b.destroy()
xh.destroy()
A.destroy()
ksp.destroy()

<petsc4py.PETSc.KSP at 0x7fb6611edb20>

Post-processing#

Finally, we compare our approximate solution with the exact solution by computing the \(L^2(\Omega)\) error. We use the convenience function scifem.assemble_scalar() to compute the error.

diff = uh - u_exact(x)
error = ufl.inner(diff, diff) * ufl.dx
print(f"L2 error: {np.sqrt(assemble_scalar(error)):.2e}")

L2 error: 6.73e-03

We can now plot the solution

vtk_mesh = dolfinx.plot.vtk_mesh(V)

pyvista.start_xvfb(1.0)
grid = pyvista.UnstructuredGrid(*vtk_mesh)
grid.point_data["u"] = uh.x.array.real

warped = grid.warp_by_scalar("u", factor=1)
plotter = pyvista.Plotter()
plotter.add_mesh(grid, style="wireframe")
plotter.add_mesh(warped)
if not pyvista.OFF_SCREEN:
    plotter.show()

/dolfinx-env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyvista/plotting/utilities/xvfb.py:48: PyVistaDeprecationWarning: This function is deprecated and will be removed in future version of PyVista. Use vtk-osmesa instead.
  warnings.warn(
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