Viscosity robust weak Galerkin finite element methods for Stokes problems

Bin Wang; Lin Mu; Bin Wang; Lin Mu

doi:10.3934/era.2020096

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2021, Volume 29, Issue 1: 1881-1895. doi: 10.3934/era.2020096

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Viscosity robust weak Galerkin finite element methods for Stokes problems

Bin Wang ^{1
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Lin Mu ^{2
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Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University, 2245 Patrick F Taylor Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30605, USA

Received: 01 April 2020 Revised: 01 July 2020 Published: 16 September 2020
Primary: 65N15, 65N30; Secondary: 35B45, 35J50, 35J35

In this paper, we develop a viscosity robust weak Galerkin finite element scheme for Stokes equations. The major idea for achieving pressure-independent energy-error estimate is to use a divergence preserving velocity reconstruction operator in the discretization of the right hand side body force. The optimal convergence results for velocity and pressure have been established in this paper. Finally, numerical examples are presented for validating the theoretical conclusions.
- Weak Galerkin,
- finite element methods,
- Stokes equations,
- divergence preserving,
- pressure robust error estimate
Citation: Bin Wang, Lin Mu. Viscosity robust weak Galerkin finite element methods for Stokes problems[J]. Electronic Research Archive, 2021, 29(1): 1881-1895. doi: 10.3934/era.2020096

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop a viscosity robust weak Galerkin finite element scheme for Stokes equations. The major idea for achieving pressure-independent energy-error estimate is to use a divergence preserving velocity reconstruction operator in the discretization of the right hand side body force. The optimal convergence results for velocity and pressure have been established in this paper. Finally, numerical examples are presented for validating the theoretical conclusions.

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