Optimal error estimate for semi-implicit space-time discretization for the equations describing incompressible generalized Newtonian fluids

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRU008zbMath1326.76056arXiv1307.7578OpenAlexW2089586835MaRDI QIDQ5249720

Lars Diening, Luigi C. Berselli, Michael Ružička

Publication date: 11 May 2015

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the numerical error arising in the space-time approximation of unsteady generalized Newtonian fluids which possess a stress-tensor with $(p,delta)$-structure. A semi-implicit time-discretization scheme coupled with conforming inf-sup stable finite element space discretization is analyzed. The main result, which improves previous suboptimal estimates as those in [A. Prohl, and M. Ruzicka, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 39 (2001), pp. 214--249] is the optimal $O(k+h)$ error-estimate valid in the range $pin (3/2,2]$, where $k$ and $h$ are the time-step and the mesh-size, respectively. Our results hold in three-dimensional domains (with periodic boundary conditions) and are uniform with respect to the degeneracy parameter $in [0,delta_0]$ of the extra stress tensor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7578

zbMATH Keywords

error analysisnon-Newtonian fluidsshear-dependent viscosityfully discrete problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15)

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