Space-time isogeometric method for a linear fourth order time dependent problem

Abstract

This article focuses on the space-time isogeometric method for a linear time dependent fourth order problem. Using an auxiliary variable, first the problem is split into a system of two second order differential equations and then the system is discretized by employing the tensor product spline spaces of time and spatial variables. We use the Babuska's theorem to prove the well-posedness of the continuous variational formulation. Also, the inf-sup stability condition at discrete level is established, which we use to prove the error estimates for the proposed method. Finally, to demonstrate the convergence of the scheme, few numerical results are reported.