New Stability Estimates for an Unfitted Finite Element Method for Two-Phase Stokes Problem

DOI10.1137/19M1266897zbMATH Open1467.65106arXiv1906.02779OpenAlexW3045685352MaRDI QIDQ5115708FDOQ5115708

Authors: Ernesto Cáceres, Johnny Guzmán, Maxim A. Olshanskii 

Publication date: 18 August 2020

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper addresses stability and finite element analysis of the stationary two-phase Stokes problem with a piecewise constant viscosity coefficient experiencing a jump across the interface between two fluid phases. We first prove a priori estimates for the individual terms of the Cauchy stress tensor with stability constants independent of the viscosity coefficient. Next, this stability result is extended to the approximation of the two-phase Stokes problem by a finite element method. In the method considered, the interface between the phases does not respect the underlying triangulation, which put the finite element method into the class of unfitted discretizations. The finite element error estimates are proved with constants independent of viscosity. Numerical experiments supporting the theoretical results are provided.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02779

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zbMATH Keywords

finite elementstwo-phase flowStokes problemXFEMdiscrete extensioncutFEM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data (35R05) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Fictitious domain methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N85) Liquid-liquid two component flows (76T06)

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