Fully discrete finite element methods for two-dimensional Bingham flows (Q1720984)

Summary: This paper presents fully discrete stabilized finite element methods for two-dimensional Bingham fluid flow based on the method of regularization. Motivated by the Brezzi-Pitkäranta stabilized finite element method, the equal-order piecewise linear finite element approximation is used for both the velocity and the pressure. Based on Euler semi-implicit scheme, a fully discrete scheme is introduced. It is shown that the proposed fully discrete stabilized finite element scheme results in the \(h^{1 / 2}\) error order for the velocity in the discrete norms corresponding to \(L^2(0, T; H^1(\Omega)^2) \cap L^{\infty}(0, T; L^2(\Omega)^2) \).