An energy stable finite element method for the nonlocal electron heat transport model

Abstract

In this paper, the nonlocal electron heat transport model in one and two dimensions is considered and studied. An energy stability finite element method is designed to discretize the nonlocal electron heat transport model. For the nonlinear discrete system, both Newton iteration and implicit-explicit (IMEX) schemes are employed to solve it. Then the energy stability is proved in semi-discrete and fully-discrete schemes. Numerical examples are presented to verify the energy stability of the proposed schemes as well as the optimal convergence order in $L^{\infty }$, $L^2$ and $H^1$ norm.