A time dependent Stokes interface problem: well-posedness and space-time finite element discretization

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2018053zbMATH Open1414.76037arXiv1803.06339OpenAlexW2963551599WikidataQ129248990 ScholiaQ129248990MaRDI QIDQ5380993FDOQ5380993

Arnold Reusken, Igor Voulis

Publication date: 7 June 2019

Published in: ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and a pressure solution that is discontinuous across an evolving interface. This strongly simplified two-phase Stokes equation is considered to be a good model problem for the development and analysis of finite element discretization methods for two-phase flow problems. In view of the unfitted finite element methods that are often used for two-phase flow simulations, we are particularly interested in a well-posed variational formulation of this Stokes interface problem in a Euclidean setting. Such well-posed weak formulations, which are not known in the literature, are the main results of this paper. Different variants are considered, namely one with suitable spaces of divergence free functions, a discrete-in-time version of it, and variants in which the divergence free constraint in the solution space is treated by a pressure Lagrange multiplier. The discrete-in-time variational formulation involving the pressure variable for the divergence free constraint is a natural starting point for a space-time finite element discretization. Such a method is introduced and results of numerical experiments with this method are presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06339

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zbMATH Keywords

XFEMtwo-phase Stokes equationsDGspace-time variational saddle point formulationwell-posed operator equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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