Galerkin Scheme Using Biorthogonal Wavelets on Intervals for Elliptic Interface Problems

This paper presents a wavelet Galerkin method for solving elliptic interface problems of the form $-\nabla\cdot(a\nabla u)=f$ in $Ω\backslash Γ$, where $Γ$ is a smooth interface within $Ω$. Since the scalar variable coefficient $a>0$ and source term $f$ are often discontinuous across $Γ$, the solution $u$ typically has discontinuous gradient $\nabla u$ across $Γ$ and hence $u\not\in H^{1.5}(Ω)$, posing significant challenges for traditional numerical methods. By utilizing a compactly supported biorthogonal wavelet for $H^1_0(Ω)$, we develop a strategy that incorporates additional wavelet elements (or basis functions) along the interface to resolve the complex geometry of the interface $Γ$ and the resulting gradient discontinuities. For the two-dimensional (2D) elliptic interface problem, the proposed method achieves near-optimal convergence rates: $\mathcal{O}(h |\log(h)|)$ in the $H^1(Ω)$-norm and $\mathcal(h^2 |\log(h)|^2)$ in the $L^{2}$-norm with respect to the approximation order. A key theoretical contribution is the use of the dual biorthogonal wavelet basis to establish the $H^1(Ω)$ convergence results. This is supported by the development of weighted Bessel properties for wavelets and several inequalities in fractional Sobolev spaces. To maintain high accuracy and robustness against high-contrast coefficients, our method leverages an augmented set of wavelet elements, similar to meshfree approaches, thereby eliminating the need for the complex re-meshing required by finite element methods. Unlike existing techniques, this wavelet Riesz basis framework captures the geometry of $Γ$ seamlessly while ensuring that the condition numbers of the coefficient matrices remain small and uniformly bounded, independent of the problem size.

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