Analysis of a pressure-stabilized finite element approximation of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations
Analysis of a pressure-stabilized finite element approximation of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations
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DOI:
10.1007/s002110000174
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
R. Codina;J. Blasco
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作者:
R. Codina;J. Blasco
The purpose of this paper is to analyze a finite element approximation of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations that allows the use of equal velocity-pressure interpolation. The idea is to introduce as unknown of the discrete problem the projection of the pressure gradient (multiplied by suitable algorithmic parameters) onto the space of continuous vector fields. The difference between these two vectors (pressure gradient and projection) is introduced in the continuity equation. The resulting formulation is shown to be stable and optimally convergent, both in a norm associated to the problem and in thenorm for both velocities and pressure. This is proved first for the Stokes problem, and then it is extended to the nonlinear case. All the analysis relies on an inf-sup condition that is much weaker than for the standard Galerkin approximation, in spite of the fact that the present method is only a minor modification of this.