Time-stepping with implicit Euler when solving for two variables simultaneously?

Hello,

I am relatively new to NGSolve, and came of from studying FEniCS.
I am trying to time-step a weak form that involves two coupled PDEs, to solve for two variables, using the implicit Euler method.
To my understanding, in all tutorials and demos on the NGSolve website (section 3.1-3.5), the authors define the mass matrix as the product of the trial and test function. However, how do I define the mass matrix when two variables are solved for?

For example, in this demo: ngsolve.org/docu/latest/i-tutorials/unit...bolic/parabolic.html ,
the authors define a so-called m matrix, from which they define an mstar matrix of same size and sparsity, whose inverse they use in the time-stepping loop. Do I have to define two separate m matrices?

However, it is not clear to me how I would go about working with two trial functions and two test functions.
My weak form is:



and I am hoping to solve for A and B simultaneously using H-curl elements in a 3D cube.

I apologize if the solution to my confusion is trivial, I am still trying to figure NGSolve out. I attempted this using FEniCS by following their tutorial here: fenicsproject.org/pub/tutorial/html/._ftut1010.html (and I made a functional program).

I would appreciate any advice. I understand that my equations might be cryptic and not even be well-posed, but this is mainly an exercise of understanding NGSolve functionality, to me. This is in preparation for research on more-realistic problems.

Hi Thauwa,

in the Navier-Stokes example in the documentation an IMEX scheme with two unknowns is described.

The mass matrices m appear after the time derivative is discretized:
(d/dt A)*dA -> 1/tau*(A-A_old)*dA
yielding the mass matrix A*dA after putting -A_old*dA to the right-hand side and multiplying with tau.

I would recommend doing this on paper and then defining the write BilinearForms and mstar matrix.
Another more quick, but less efficient possibility is to write down the system of equations directly into a BilinearForm and then solve it with Newton's method (which converges after one step for a linear problem).

Attached, you'll find this illustrated using your system of equations (with dummy parameters)

Best,
Michael

Hi Michael,
Thank you so very much for your advice and response!