A variational finite element discretization of compressible flow

DOI10.1007/S10208-020-09473-WMaRDI QIDQ2231645zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Evan S. Gawlik, François Gay-Balmaz

Publication date 30 September 2021

Published in Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05648

zbMATH Keywords

compressible fluiddiscrete diffeomorphism groupfinite element variational integratorgeometric formulation of fluid dynamicsstructure-preserving discretization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) General theory of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, conservation laws (37K06) Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics (37K65) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Symmetry analysis, Lie group and Lie algebra methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M60) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10)

Abstract: We present a finite element variational integrator for compressible flows. The numerical scheme is derived by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups and the associated variational principles. Given a triangulation on the fluid domain, the discrete group of diffeomorphisms is defined as a certain subgroup of the group of linear isomorphisms of a finite element space of functions. In this setting, discrete vector fields correspond to a certain subspace of the Lie algebra of this group. This subspace is shown to be isomorphic to a Raviart-Thomas finite element space. The resulting finite element discretization corresponds to a weak form of the compressible fluid equation that doesn't seem to have been used in the finite element literature. It extends previous work done on incompressible flows and at the lowest order on compressible flows. We illustrate the conservation properties of the scheme with some numerical simulations.

Review text

The paper at hand presents a novel fully discrete finite element variational integrator for compressible flows. The numerical scheme is based on the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups and the associated variational principles. Given a triangulation of the fluid domain, the discrete group of diffeomorphisms is defined as a certain subgroup of the group of linear isomorphisms of a finite element space of functions. In this setting, discrete vector fields correspond to a subspace of the Lie algebra of this group that is shown to be isomorphic to a Raviart-Thomas finite element space. The resulting finite element discretization corresponds to a weak form of the compressible fluid equation. The method is structure preserving and, in particular, energy conserving. Numerical experiments that illustrate convergence and conservation properties of the scheme are presented.

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