Equal higher order analysis of an unfitted discontinuous Galerkin method for Stokes flow systems (Q2147462)

The authors are concerned with an unfitted discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical solution of the Stokes system based on equal higher-order discontinuous velocity and pressure. With the fictitious domain algorithm, the physical domain is embedded into an unfitted background mesh and the geometrically unfitted discretization is built upon symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin formulation. In order to assure stability of the proposed method the authors enrich the discrete variational formulation with a pressure stabilization term. In order to make the method robust, some proper velocity and pressure ghost penalties, defined on faces of cut cells, are introduced. The optimal order of convergence and the condition number sensitivity with respect to cut configuration are also investigated. A convergence study is carried out, using a 2D example, with a manufactured exact solution, in order to underline the qualities of the method.