Convergence Analysis and Error Estimates for a Second Order Accurate Finite Element Method for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes System

DOI10.1007/S00211-017-0887-5MaRDI QIDQ6274435arXivFDO

Authors Amanda E. Diegel, C. Wang, Xiaoming Wang, Steven Wise

Publication date 8 June 2016

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00211-017-0887-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K35) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Numerical integration (65D30) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

arXiv classification

math.NA

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel second order in time mixed finite element scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with matched densities. The scheme combines a standard second order Crank-Nicholson method for the Navier-Stokes equations and a modification to the Crank-Nicholson method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. In particular, a second order Adams-Bashforth extrapolation and a trapezoidal rule are included to help preserve the energy stability natural to the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We show that our scheme is unconditionally energy stable with respect to a modification of the continuous free energy of the PDE system. Specifically, the discrete phase variable is shown to be bounded in $el{l}^{i}nftyleft(0,T;L^{i}nftyight)$ and the discrete chemical potential bounded in $el{l}^{i}nftyleft(0,T;L^{2}ight)$, for any time and space step sizes, in two and three dimensions, and for any finite final time $T$. We subsequently prove that these variables along with the fluid velocity converge with optimal rates in the appropriate energy norms in both two and three dimensions.

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