Artificial Boundary Conditions for Random Elliptic Systems with Correlated Coefficient Field

Multiscale Modeling &Simulation, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 973-1029, September 2024.
Abstract. We are interested in numerical algorithms for computing the electrical field generated by a charge distribution localized on scale [math] in an infinite heterogeneous correlated random medium, in a situation where the medium is only known in a box of diameter [math] around the support of the charge. We show that the algorithm in [J. Lu, F. Otto, and L. Wang, Optimal Artificial Boundary Conditions Based on Second-Order Correctors for Three Dimensional Random Ellilptic Media, preprint, arXiv:2109.01616, 2021], suggesting optimal Dirichlet boundary conditions motivated by the multipole expansion [P. Bella, A. Giunti, and F. Otto, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 45 (2020), pp. 561–640], still performs well in correlated media. With overwhelming probability, we obtain a convergence rate in terms of [math], [math], and the size of the correlations for which optimality is supported with numerical simulations. These estimates are provided for ensembles which satisfy a multiscale logarithmic Sobolev inequality, where our main tool is an extension of the semigroup estimates in [N. Clozeau, Stoch. Partial Differ. Equ. Anal. Comput., 11 (2023), pp. 1254–1378]. As part of our strategy, we construct sublinear second-order correctors in this correlated setting, which is of independent interest.