A simple finite element method for the Stokes equations

DOI10.1007/S10444-017-9526-ZMaRDI QIDQ1693583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Lin Mu, Xiu Ye

Publication date 31 January 2018

Published in Advances in Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05355

zbMATH Keywords

finite element methodsStokes problemweak Galerkin methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to introduce a simple finite element method to solve the Stokes and the Navier-Stokes equations. This method is in primal velocity-pressure formulation and is so simple such that both velocity and pressure are approximated by piecewise constant functions. Implementation issues as well as error analysis are investigated. A basis for a divergence free subspace of the velocity field is constructed so that the original saddle point problem can be reduced to a symmetric and positive definite system with much fewer unknowns. The numerical experiments indicate that the method is accurate and robust.

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