Transport-stabilized Semidiscretizations of the Incompressible Navier—Stokes Equations

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Angermann

AbstractWithin the framework of finite element methods, the paper investigates a general approximation technique for the nonlinear convective term of Navier — Stokes equations. The approach is based on an upwind method of the finite volume type. It has been proved that the discrete convective term satisfies the well-known collection of sufficient conditions for convergence of the finite element solution. For a particular nonconforming scheme, the assumptions have been verified in detail and the estimate of the semidiscrete velocity error has been proved.

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 2377-2398
Author(s):  
Gabriel R Barrenechea ◽  
Andreas Wachtel

Abstract Uniform inf-sup conditions are of fundamental importance for the finite element solution of problems in incompressible fluid mechanics, such as the Stokes and Navier–Stokes equations. In this work we prove a uniform inf-sup condition for the lowest-order Taylor–Hood pairs $\mathbb{Q}_2\times \mathbb{Q}_1$ and $\mathbb{P}_2\times \mathbb{P}_1$ on a family of affine anisotropic meshes. These meshes may contain refined edge and corner patches. We identify necessary hypotheses for edge patches to allow uniform stability and sufficient conditions for corner patches. For the proof, we generalize Verfürth’s trick and recent results by some of the authors. Numerical evidence confirms the theoretical results.


2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1747-1786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier de Frutos ◽  
Bosco García-Archilla ◽  
Volker John ◽  
Julia Novo

Abstract This paper studies non inf-sup stable finite element approximations to the evolutionary Navier–Stokes equations. Several local projection stabilization (LPS) methods corresponding to different stabilization terms are analyzed, thereby separately studying the effects of the different stabilization terms. Error estimates are derived in which the constants are independent of inverse powers of the viscosity. For one of the methods, using velocity and pressure finite elements of degree $l$, it will be proved that the velocity error in $L^\infty (0,T;L^2(\varOmega ))$ decays with rate $l+1/2$ in the case that $\nu \le h$, with $\nu$ being the dimensionless viscosity and $h$ being the mesh width. In the analysis of another method it was observed that the convective term can be bounded in an optimal way with the LPS stabilization of the pressure gradient. Numerical studies confirm the analytical results.


Author(s):  
Alexander Danilov ◽  
Alexander Lozovskiy ◽  
Maxim Olshanskii ◽  
Yuri Vassilevski

AbstractThe paper introduces a finite element method for the Navier-Stokes equations of incompressible viscous fluid in a time-dependent domain. The method is based on a quasi-Lagrangian formulation of the problem and handling the geometry in a time-explicit way. We prove that numerical solution satisfies a discrete analogue of the fundamental energy estimate. This stability estimate does not require a CFL time-step restriction. The method is further applied to simulation of a flow in a model of the left ventricle of a human heart, where the ventricle wall dynamics is reconstructed from a sequence of contrast enhanced Computed Tomography images.


Author(s):  
Kangrui Zhou ◽  
Yueqiang Shang

AbstractBased on full domain partition, three parallel iterative finite-element algorithms are proposed and analyzed for the Navier–Stokes equations with nonlinear slip boundary conditions. Since the nonlinear slip boundary conditions include the subdifferential property, the variational formulation of these equations is variational inequalities of the second kind. In these parallel algorithms, each subproblem is defined on a global composite mesh that is fine with size h on its subdomain and coarse with size H (H ≫ h) far away from the subdomain, and then we can solve it in parallel with other subproblems by using an existing sequential solver without extensive recoding. All of the subproblems are nonlinear and are independently solved by three kinds of iterative methods. Compared with the corresponding serial iterative finite-element algorithms, the parallel algorithms proposed in this paper can yield an approximate solution with a comparable accuracy and a substantial decrease in computational time. Contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) new parallel algorithms based on full domain partition are proposed for the Navier–Stokes equations with nonlinear slip boundary conditions; (2) nonlinear iterative methods are studied in the parallel algorithms; (3) new theoretical results about the stability, convergence and error estimates of the developed algorithms are obtained; (4) some numerical results are given to illustrate the promise of the developed algorithms.


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