On the stability of colocated clustered finite volume simplicial discretizations for the 2D Stokes problem (Q931068)

A new stability proof for a cell-centered collocated finite volume scheme for 2D Stokes problem is obtained. The scheme involves two grids. The coarsest one is a triangulation of the computational domain in acute angles simplices; these triangles are called clusters. The control volumes grid is a finer one, built by cutting each cluster along the lines joining the mid-edge points to obtain four sub-triangles. By explicitly building a Fortin projection operator the authors prove that he pair of discrete spaces associating the classical cell-centered approximation for the velocities and cluster-wide constant pressures is inf-sup stable. In a second step, they prove that a stabilization involving pressure jumps only across the internal edges of the clusters yields a stable scheme with the usual collocated discretization (i.e. with the cell-centered approximation for the velocity and the pressure). Finally they give an interpretation of this stabilization as a ``minimal stabilization procedure'', as introduced by \textit{F. Brezzi} and \textit{M. Fortin} [Numer. Math. 89, No.\,3, 457--491 (2001; Zbl 1009.65067)].