Nitsche's method for defective boundary value problems in incompressibile fluid-dynamics (Q639390)

The author presents a unified formulation for the prescription of defective boundary conditions in fluid-dynamics, by means of the Nitsche's method. One studies the well-posedness of the discrete problem and the convergence of the numerical solution. In this paper the author proposed a unified treatment of defective boundary problems by means of the extended Nitsche's method. The well-posedness of this formulation and the convergence of the discrete solution towards the continuous one is shown. One has focused on the differences between mean normal stress and mean pressure conditions, highlighting which are the corresponding consistent formulations. Moreover, one has performed a comparison between the proposed strategy and the Augmented one in the case of the flow rate problem. by remarking that the Nitsche's method performs better than the Augmented one in terms of generality, but not in terms of modularity and independence of parameters. From the efficiency point of view, with a monolithic approach the Nitsche's method seems to perform better, whilst with a factorization technique, the Augmented one seems to be preferred. The author has then validated the proposed method when both the flow rate and the mean normal stress are prescribed at the same time, by a comparison with the Poiseuille solution. Finally, the proposed methodology is applied to the fluid-structure interaction case, highlighting that the convergence of a partitioned procedure is independent of which strategy is used to prescribe the flow rate, and pointing out the versatility of the extended Nitsche's method in terms of implementation issues when one has to switch between different defective problems. Finally, the author presents several numerical results, focusing on the validation of the proposed method, on a comparison with a pre-existing strategy for the prescription of the flow rate, and on the application to the fluid-structure interaction case. This work seems to be of crucial importance in approaching the blood flow in the cardiovascular system.