A Hellan-Herrmann-Johnson-like method for the stream function formulation of the Stokes equations in two and three space dimensions

DOI10.1137/20M1338034zbMATH Open1466.65196arXiv2005.06506OpenAlexW3129829590MaRDI QIDQ5151933FDOQ5151933

Authors: Philip L. Lederer 

Publication date: 23 February 2021

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

Abstract: We introduce a new discretization for the stream function formulation of the incompressible Stokes equations in two and three space dimensions. The method is strongly related to the Hellan-Herrmann-Johnson method and is based on the recently discovered mass conserving mixed stress formulation [J. Gopalakrishnan, P.L. Lederer, J. Sch"oberl, IMA Journal of numerical Analysis, 2019] that approximates the velocity in an $H(operatornamediv)$-conforming space and introduces a new stress-like variable for the approximation of the gradient of the velocity within the function space $H(operatornamecurloperatornamediv)$. The properties of the (discrete) de Rham complex allows to extend this method to a stream function formulation in two and three space dimensions. We present a detailed stability analysis in the continuous and the discrete setting where the stream function $psi$ and its approximation $ps{i}_h$ are elements of $H(operatornamecurl)$ and the $H(operatornamecurl)$-conforming N'ed'elec finite element space, respectively. We conclude with an error analysis revealing optimal convergence rates for the error of the discrete velocity $u_h=operatornamecurl(ps{i}_h)$ measured in a discrete $H^1$-norm. We present numerical examples to validate our findings and discuss structure-preserving properties such as pressure-robustness.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06506

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zbMATH Keywords

incompressible flowsStokes equationsstream function formulationHellan-Herrmann-Johnson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) 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) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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• NGSolve

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