The FEM approach to the 3D electrodiffusion on 'meshes' optimized with the Metropolis algorithm

Abstract: The presented article contains a 3D mesh generation routine optimized with the Metropolis algorithm. The procedure enables to produce meshes of a prescribed volume V_0 of elements. The finite volume meshes are used with the Finite Element approach. The FEM analysis enables to deal with a set of coupled nonlinear differential equations that describes the electrodiffusional problem. Mesh quality and accuracy of FEM solutions are also examined. High quality of FEM type space-dependent approximation and correctness of discrete approximation in time are ensured by finding solutions to the 3D Laplace problem and to the 3D diffusion equation, respectively. Their comparison with analytical solutions confirms accuracy of obtained approximations.