Finite element approximation of the FENE-P model

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRX061MaRDI QIDQ4555984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John W. Barrett, Sebastien Boyabal

Publication date 23 November 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00886, http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/51039

zbMATH Keywords

convergence analysisentropyexistence of weak solutionsFENE-P modelfinite element methodstress diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We extend our analysis on the Oldroyd-B model in Barrett and Boyaval [1] to consider the finite element approximation of the FENE-P system of equations, which models a dilute polymeric fluid, in a bounded domain $D$subset$Rd,d=2or3$, subject to no flow boundary conditions. Our schemes are based on approximating the pressure and the symmetric conforma-tion tensor by either (a) piecewise constants or (b) continuous piecewise linears. In case (a) the velocity field is approximated by continuous piecewise quadratics ($d=2$) or a reduced version, where the tangential component on each simplicial edge ($d=2$) or face ($d=3$) is linear. In case (b) the velocity field is approximated by continuous piecewise quadratics or the mini-element. We show that both of these types of schemes, based on the backward Euler type time discretiza-tion, satisfy a free energy bound, which involves the logarithm of both the conformation tensor and a linear function of its trace, without any constraint on the time step. Furthermore, for our approximation (b) in the presence of an additional dissipative term in the stress equation, the so-called FENE-P model with stress diffusion, we show (subsequence) convergence in the case $d=2$, as the spatial and temporal discretization parameters tend to zero, towards global-in-time weak solutions of this FENE-P system. Hence, we prove existence of global-in-time weak solutions to the FENE-P model with stress diffusion in two spatial dimensions.

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