A Dynamical Adaptive Concept Based on Wavelet Packet Best Bases:
Application to the Resolution of Convection-Diffusion PDEs

 Pascal Joly, Yvon Maday and ValĂ©rie Perrier


We exploit in this paper a methodology based on the wavelet packet concept. It allows for solving with very few number of degrees of freedom partial differential equations. The main application is here the Burgers equation with a small viscosity. The wavelet packet framework allows to define the notion of a minimal basis that has proven to be an efficient procedure for data compression. The purpose here is to take benefit of this compression to represent accurately and economically the solution of a time dependant PDE. The time discretization is a standard multistep scheme. The spacial discretization is defined by infering a reduced basis for the solution at the new time step, from the knowledge of the previous ones. The wavelet packet method is a better approach for adaptivity in the case where the solution to be approximated has many singularities.


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