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A second-order boundary condition capturing method is presented for the elliptic interface problem with jump conditions in the solution and its normal derivative. The proposed method is an extension of the work in Liu et al. (J Comput Phys 160(1):151–178, 2000) to a higher order. The motivation of proposed method is that the approximated value at the interface can be reconstructed by proper interpolation based on the level set representation from Gibou et al. (J Comput Phys 176(1):205–227, 2002). A second-order accurate method is constructed, both in the solution and its gradient, using second-order finite difference approximation. Several numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method is indeed second-order accurate in the solution and its gradient in the \(L^{2}\) and \(L^{\infty }\) norms.
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The research of Byungjoon Lee was supported by NRF Grant 2017R1C1B1008626 and POSCO Science Fellowship of POSCO TJ Park Foundation. The research of Myungjoo Kang was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)(2015R1A15A1009350, 2017R1A2A1A17069644).
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Appendix: Formulation of \(\mathbf {M}\) in (41)
Appendix: Formulation of \(\mathbf {M}\) in (41)
The actual computation of the reduced \(\mathbf {M}\) in (41) will herein be presented. We assume that \((x_{i},y_{j}) \in {\Omega }^-\). With the choice of \(\mathbf {x_\text {ext}}\), the approximation of \(\nabla u\) at the interface by quadratic interpolation satisfying (26) will be formulated explicitly.
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Case 1 The interface intersects one grid segment. Without loss of generality, we may assume that \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\) is not on the grid, and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}},{\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {B}},{\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}\) are on the grid, as shown in Fig. 15. We need only discretize the jump condition at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}=(x_{R},y_{j})\). At the remaining points, \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}},{\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {B}}\) and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}\), we have \(u_T^-=u_{i,j+1},u_B^-=u_{i,j-1}\) and \(u_L^-=u_{i-1,j}\). Let \(\mathbf {x_\text {ext}}= (x_{i-1},y_{j-1})\). Using second-order finite differences in Cartesian directions (29) with \(u_L^-= u_{i-1,j}\), we obtain
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_x^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( -\frac{3-2\theta _R}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _R)} u_R^+ +\frac{2-\theta _R}{1-\theta _R} u_{i+1,j}- \frac{1-\theta _R}{2-\theta _R} u_{i+2,j}\right) \bigg /\varDelta x \right. ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{\theta _R}{\theta _R+1} u_{i-1,j} - \frac{\theta _R+1}{\theta _R} u_{i,j}+ \frac{2\theta _R+1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)} u_{R}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$We approximate \(u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})\) by \(P_y\), where P is obtained by quadratic interpolation (26).
$$\begin{aligned} u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})\approx \left. \left( \theta _R(u_{i,j}-u_{i-1,j}-u_{i,j-1}+u_{i-1,j-1}) +\frac{1}{2}(u_{i,j+1}-u_{i,j-1}) \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. . \end{aligned}$$\([\beta u_x]_R\) is discretized by equating the following relations:
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {[\beta u_n]}n_x -[\beta ](-u_x^- n_y + u_y^-n_x)n_y -\beta ^+[u]_\tau n_y = \beta ^+u_x^+ - \beta ^- u_x^- . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$\(\mathbf {M}\) in (41) reduces to a \(1\times 1\) matrix, and we may write system (41) as follows:
$$\begin{aligned} \left( -\beta ^+\frac{3-2\theta _R}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _r)}-(\beta ^- +[\beta ] n_y^2)\frac{2\theta _R+1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)} \right) u_R^- =\mathbf {N}\mathbf {u} + \mathbf {d}. \end{aligned}$$ -
Case 2 The interface intersects two grid segment. We assume that \(\phi _{i,j}\phi _{i+1,j}<0\) and \(\phi _{i,j}\phi _{i,j+1}<0\). Thus, \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\) and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\) are not on the grid, but \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {B}}\) and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}\) are on the grid. We choose \(\mathbf {x_\text {ext}}\) to be \((x_{i-1},y_{j-1})\). The location of the interface and the choice of \(\mathbf {x_\text {ext}}\) are shown in Fig. 16. As in case 1, we use second-order finite differences (29) and quadratic interpolation satisfying (26), and we approximate \(u_x^+,u_x^-, u_y^-\) at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\) and \( u_y^+, u_y^-,u_x^-\) at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\):
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_x^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( -\frac{3-2\theta _R}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _r)} u_R^+ +\frac{2-\theta _R}{1-\theta _R} u_{i+1,j}- \frac{1-\theta _R}{2-\theta _R} u_{i+2,j}\right) \bigg /\varDelta x \right. ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{\theta _R}{\theta _R+1} u_{i-1,j} - \frac{\theta _R+1}{\theta _R} u_{i,j}+ \frac{2\theta _R+1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)} u_{R}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( \theta _Ru_{xy}^0 + u_y^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$and
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_y^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( -\frac{3-2\theta _T}{(1-\theta _T)(2-\theta _T)} u_T^+ +\frac{2-\theta _T}{1-\theta _T} u_{i,j+1}- \frac{1-\theta _T}{2-\theta _T} u_{i,j+2}\right) \bigg /\varDelta y \right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{\theta _T}{\theta _T+1} u_{i,j-1} - \frac{\theta _T+1}{\theta _T} u_{i,j}+ \frac{2\theta _T+1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)} u_{T}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( \theta _Tu_{xy}^0 + u_x^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$for
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_{xy}^0&=\left. \left( u_{i,j}-u_{i-1,j}-u_{i,j-1}+u_{i-1,j-1} \right) \right. ,\\ u_{x}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)}u_{R}^-+\frac{\theta _R-1}{\theta _R}u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _R}{\theta _R+1}u_{i-1,j} \right) \right. ,\\ u_{y}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}u_{T}^-+\frac{\theta _T-1}{\theta _T}u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _T}{\theta _T+1}u_{i,j-1} \right) \right. . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$We discretize the jump conditions
$$\begin{aligned} {[\beta u_n]}n_x -[\beta ](-u_x^- n_y + u_y^-n_x)n_y -\beta ^+[u]_\tau n_y = \beta ^+u_x^+ - \beta ^- u_x^- \end{aligned}$$at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\) and
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} {[\beta u_n]}n_y +[\beta ](-u_x^- n_y + u_y^-n_x)n_x +\beta ^+[u]_\tau n_x = \beta ^+u_y^+ - \beta ^- u_y^- \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\). The system (41) becomes
$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf {M} \begin{pmatrix} u_R^-\\ u_T^- \end{pmatrix}=\mathbf {N} \mathbf {u}+ \mathbf {d} \end{aligned}$$for
$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf {M}= \begin{pmatrix} -\hat{\beta }_R &{} \left. \left( \frac{n_x n_y[\beta ]}{(\theta _T+1)\theta _T}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}} \\ \left. \left( \frac{n_x n_y[\beta ]}{(\theta _R+1)\theta _R} \right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}} &{} -\hat{\beta }_T \end{pmatrix} \end{aligned}$$where
$$\begin{aligned} \hat{\beta }_R =\left. \left( \beta ^+\frac{3-2\theta _R}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _R)}+(\beta ^- +[\beta ] n_y^2)\frac{2\theta _R+1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}}, \\ \hat{\beta }_T = \left. \left( \beta ^+\frac{3-2\theta _R}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _r)}+(\beta ^- +[\beta ] n_x^2)\frac{2\theta _R+1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}} . \\ \end{aligned}$$ -
Case 3 The interface intersects two grid segments, but case 2 in Sect. 3.2 occurs. We again assume that \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\) and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\) are not on the grid, but \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {B}}\) and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}\) are on the grid; however, we now have \((x_{i+2},y_{j})\in {\Omega }^-\). We define \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}}\) as in (31). Figure 17 shows the interface and the location of \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}}\). Again, quadratic interpolation (26) and second-order finite differences in Cartesian direction lead to the approximations
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_x^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left( -\frac{3-2\theta _R -\theta _r}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _R-\theta _r)} u_R^+ +\frac{2-\theta _R-\theta _r}{(1-\theta _R)(1-\theta _r)} u_{i,j}\right. \\&\quad \left. - \frac{1-\theta _R}{(1-\theta _r)(2-\theta _R-\theta _r)} u_{r}^+\right) \bigg /\varDelta x ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{\theta _R}{\theta _R+1} u_{i-1,j} - \frac{\theta _R+1}{\theta _R} u_{i,j}+ \frac{2\theta _R+1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)} u_{R}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( \theta _Ru_{xy}^0 + u_y^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\),
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_x^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}})&\approx \left( \frac{ 1-\theta _r}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _R-\theta _r)} u_R^+ -\frac{2-\theta _R-\theta _r}{(1-\theta _R)(1-\theta _r)} u_{i,j}\right. \\&\quad \left. + \frac{3-\theta _R-2\theta _r}{(1-\theta _r)(2-\theta _R-\theta _r)} u_{r}^+ \right) \bigg /\varDelta x ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}})&\approx \left. \left( -\frac{\theta _r}{\theta _r+1} u_{i+3,j} + \frac{\theta _r+1}{\theta _r} u_{i+2,j}- \frac{2\theta _r+1}{\theta _r(\theta _r+1)} u_{r}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}})&\approx \left. \left( (2-\theta _r) u_{xy}^0 + u_y^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}}\), and
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_y^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( -\frac{3-2\theta _T}{(1-\theta _T)(2-\theta _T)} u_T^+ +\frac{2-\theta _T}{1-\theta _T} u_{i,j+1}- \frac{1-\theta _T}{2-\theta _T} u_{i,j+2}\right) \bigg /\varDelta y \right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{\theta _T}{\theta _T+1} u_{i,j-1} - \frac{\theta _T+1}{\theta _T} u_{i,j}+ \frac{2\theta _T+1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)} u_{T}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( \theta _Tu_{xy}^0 + u_x^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\) for
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_{xy}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{2}{(\theta _R+1)\theta _R} u_{R} +\frac{\theta _R-2}{\theta _R} u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _R-1}{\theta _R+1}u_{i-1,j}-u_{i+1,j-1}+u_{i,j-1} \right) \right. ,\\ u_{x}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)}u_{R}^-+\frac{\theta _R-1}{\theta _R}u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _R}{\theta _R+1}u_{i-1,j} \right) \right. ,\\ u_{y}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}u_{T}^-+\frac{\theta _T-1}{\theta _T}u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _T}{\theta _T+1}u_{i,j-1} \right) \right. . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$By discretization of the jump conditions at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\), \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\), and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}}\), we obtain the system
$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf {M} \begin{pmatrix} u_R^-\\ u_r^-\\ u_T^- \end{pmatrix}=\mathbf {N} \mathbf {u}+ \mathbf {d} \end{aligned}$$for
$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf {M}= \left( m_{ij}\right) _{i,j=1,2,3} \end{aligned}$$where
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} m_{11}&=\left( \beta ^+ \frac{(1-\theta _r)(3-2\theta _R-\theta _r)}{\hat{\theta }} +(\beta ^- +[\beta ] n_y^2) \frac{2\theta _R+1}{,}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)}\right. \\&\quad \left. -[\beta ] n_x n_y \frac{2\theta _R}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)} \right) \left. \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}}, \\ m_{12}&=\left. \left( \beta ^+ \frac{(1-\theta _R)^2}{\hat{\theta }} \right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}}, \\ m_{13}&=\left. \left( -[\beta ]n_x n_y\frac{1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)} \right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}},\\ m_{21}&=\left. \left( \beta ^+ \frac{(1-\theta _r)^2}{\hat{\theta }} +[\beta ] n_x n_y\frac{4-2\theta _r}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)} \right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}}},\\ m_{22}&= \left. \left( \beta ^+\frac{(3-\theta _R-2\theta _r)(1-\theta _R)}{\hat{\theta }} +(\beta ^- +[\beta ] n_y^2 )\frac{2\theta _r+1 }{\theta _r(\theta _r+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}}},\\ m_{23}&= \left. \left( [\beta ]n_x n_y \frac{1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {r}}},\\ m_{31}&=\left. \left( -[\beta ] n_x n_y \frac{2\theta _T+1}{\theta _R(\theta _R+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}},\\ m_{32}&=0,\\ m_{33}&= \left. \left( \beta ^+ \frac{3-2\theta _T}{(1-\theta _T)(2-\theta _T)} +(\beta ^- +[\beta ]n_x^2) \frac{2\theta _T+1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$and
$$\begin{aligned} \hat{\theta } = (1-\theta _r)(2-\theta _R-\theta _r)(1-\theta _R). \end{aligned}$$ -
Case 4 The interface intersects three grid segments.
Without loss of generality, we may assume that \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}},{\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}},{\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\) are not on the grid, and \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {B}}=(x_{i},y_{j-1})\), as shown in Fig. 18. We choose \(\mathbf {x_\text {ext}} = (x_{i-1},y_{j-1})\). By quadratic interpolation (26) and second-order finite differences, at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\), we have
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_x^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( - \frac{1-\theta _R}{2-\theta _R} u_{i+2,j}^+ +\frac{2-\theta _R}{1-\theta _R} u_{i+1,j} -\frac{3-2\theta _R }{(1-\theta _R)(1-\theta _R)} u_R^+\right) \bigg /\varDelta x \right. ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{2\theta _R+\theta _L}{\theta _R(\theta _R+\theta _L)} u_{R}^- - \frac{\theta _R+\theta _L}{\theta _R\theta _L} u_{i,j}+\frac{\theta _R}{(\theta _R+\theta _L)\theta _L} u_{L}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}})&\approx \left. \left( \theta _Ru_{xy}^0 + u_y^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$At \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}\), we have
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_x^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{3-2\theta _L }{(1-\theta _L)(1-\theta _L)} u_L^+ -\frac{2-\theta _L}{1-\theta _L} u_{i-1,j} + \frac{1-\theta _L}{2-\theta _L} u_{i-2,j}\right) \bigg /\varDelta x \right. ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}})&\approx \left. \left( -\frac{\theta _L}{\theta _R(\theta _R+\theta _L)} u_{R}^- +\frac{\theta _R+\theta _L}{\theta _R\theta _L} u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _R+2\theta _L}{(\theta _R+\theta _L)\theta _L} u_{L}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}})&\approx \left. \left( -\theta _Lu_{xy}^0 + u_y^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$and at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\), we have
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_y^+({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( -\frac{3-2\theta _T}{(1-\theta _T)(2-\theta _T)} u_T^+ +\frac{2-\theta _T}{1-\theta _T} u_{i,j+1}- \frac{1-\theta _T}{2-\theta _T} u_{i,j+2}\right) \bigg /\varDelta y \right. ,\\ u_y^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( \frac{\theta _T}{\theta _T+1} u_{i,j-1} - \frac{\theta _T+1}{\theta _T} u_{i,j}+ \frac{2\theta _T+1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)} u_{T}^- \right) \bigg / \varDelta y\right. ,\\ u_x^-({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}})&\approx \left. \left( \theta _Tu_{xy}^0 + u_x^0 \right) \bigg / \varDelta x\right. \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$for
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} u_{xy}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{\theta _L-1}{(\theta _R+\theta _L)\theta _R} u_{R}^- {+}\frac{\theta _R-\theta _L+1}{\theta _R\theta _L} u_{i,j}{-}\frac{\theta _R+1}{(\theta _R+\theta _L)\theta _L}u_{L}{-}u_{i,j-1}{+}u_{i-1,j-1} \right) \right. ,\\ u_{x}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{\theta _L}{\theta _R(\theta _R+\theta _L)}u_{R}^-+\frac{\theta _R-\theta _L}{\theta _R\theta _L}u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _R}{(\theta _R+\theta _L)\theta _L}u_{L}^- \right) \right. ,\\ u_{y}^0&=\left. \left( \frac{1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}u_{T}^-+\frac{\theta _T-1}{\theta _T}u_{i,j}-\frac{\theta _T}{\theta _T+1}u_{i,j-1} \right) \right. . \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$We discretize the jump conditions
$$\begin{aligned}{}[\beta u_n]n_x -[\beta ](-u_x^- n_y + u_y^-n_x)n_y -\beta ^+[u]_\tau n_y = \beta ^+u_x^+ - \beta ^- u_x^- \end{aligned}$$at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}},{\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}\), and
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned}{}[\beta u_n]n_y +[\beta ](-u_x^- n_y + u_y^-n_x)n_x +\beta ^+[u]_\tau n_x = \beta ^+u_y^+ - \beta ^- u_y^- \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$at \({\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}\) to obtain
$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf {M} \begin{pmatrix} u_L^-\\ u_R^-\\ u_T^- \end{pmatrix}=\mathbf {N} \mathbf {u}+ \mathbf {d} \end{aligned}$$for
$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf {M}= \left( m_{ij}\right) _{i,j=1,2,3} \end{aligned}$$where
$$\begin{aligned} m_{11}&=\left. \left( \beta ^+ \frac{3-2\theta _L}{(1-\theta _L)(2-\theta _L)} +(\beta ^- + [\beta ] n_y^2) \frac{2\theta _L\theta _R+\theta _R^2}{\hat{\theta }}+ [\beta ] n_y n_x \frac{(\theta _R+\theta _R^2)\theta _L}{\hat{\theta }}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}} ,\\ m_{12}&=\left. \left( \beta ^-+ [\beta ] n_y^2 \frac{(\theta _L)^2}{\hat{\theta }}+ [\beta ] n_x n_y \frac{-(\theta _L)^3+(\theta _L)^2}{\hat{\theta }}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}},\\ m_{13}&=\left. \left( [\beta ]n_y n_x \frac{1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {L}}},\\ m_{21}&=\left. \left( \beta ^-+ [\beta ] n_y^2 \frac{(\theta _R)^2}{\hat{\theta }}+ [\beta ] n_x n_y \frac{(\theta _R)^3+(\theta _R)^2}{\hat{\theta }}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}}, \\ m_{22}&=\left. \left( \beta ^+ \frac{3-2\theta _R}{(1-\theta _R)(2-\theta _R)} +(\beta ^- + [\beta ] n_y^2 )\frac{2\theta _L\theta _R+(\theta _L)^2}{\hat{\theta }}+ [\beta ] n_y n_x \frac{(\theta _L-(\theta _L)^2)\theta _R}{\hat{\theta }}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}}, \\ m_{23}&= \left. \left( -[\beta ]n_y n_x \frac{1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {R}}},\\ m_{31}&=\left. \left( -[\beta ] n_x n_y \frac{(\theta _R)^2 +(\theta _R+(\theta _R)^2)\theta _T}{\hat{\theta }}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}},\\ m_{32}&=\left. \left( [\beta ] n_x n_y \frac{(\theta _L)^2 +(-\theta _L+(\theta _L)^2)\theta _T}{\hat{\theta }}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}},\\ m_{33}&=\left. \left( \beta ^+ \frac{3-2\theta _T}{(1-\theta _T)(2-\theta _T)} +(\beta ^- + [\beta ] n_x^2) \frac{2\theta _T+1}{\theta _T(\theta _T+1)}\right) \right| _{\mathbf {x}={\mathbf {x}}_{\mathbf {T}}} \end{aligned}$$and
$$\begin{aligned} \hat{\theta } = \theta _R(\theta _R+\theta _L)\theta _L. \end{aligned}$$
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Cho, H., Han, H., Lee, B. et al. A Second-Order Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Solving the Elliptic Interface Problems on Irregular Domains. J Sci Comput 81, 217–251 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-019-01016-y
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