An unfitted finite element method for two-phase Stokes problems with slip between phases

DOI10.1007/S10915-021-01658-XMaRDI QIDQ2236540zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Annalisa Quaini, Qi Sun, Maxim A. Olshanskii

Publication date 25 October 2021

Published in Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09627

zbMATH Keywords

CutFEMfinite elementsStokes problemtwo-phase flowXFEM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Liquid-liquid two component flows (76T06)

Abstract: We present an isoparametric unfitted finite element approach of the CutFEM or Nitsche-XFEM family for the simulation of two-phase Stokes problems with slip between phases. For the unfitted generalized Taylor--Hood finite element pair $mathbf{P}_{k+1}-P_k$, $kge1$, we show an inf-sup stability property with a stability constant that is independent of the viscosity ratio, slip coefficient, position of the interface with respect to the background mesh and, of course, mesh size. In addition, we prove stability and optimal error estimates that follow from this inf-sup property. We provide numerical results in two and three dimensions to corroborate the theoretical findings and demonstrate the robustness of our approach with respect to the contrast in viscosity, slip coefficient value, and position of the interface relative to the fixed computational mesh.

Review text

The article is concerned with the two-phase Stokes problem describing two immiscible fluids separated by a smooth interface. Slip between the two phases is allowed. An isoparametric unfitted finite element approach with generalized Taylor-Hood elements is proposed for numerical approximation. An inf-sup stability property is proved, with a constant independent of various physical parameters. This implies stability and order-optimal error estimates. Numerical experiments in 2D and 3D illustrate the results.

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