An edge-based pressure stabilisation technique for finite elements on arbitrarily anisotropic meshes

MaRDI QIDQ6308017zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stefan Frei

Publication date 10 October 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

Abstract: In this article, we analyse a stabilised equal-order finite element approximation for the Stokes equations on anisotropic meshes. In particular, we allow arbitrary anisotropies in a sub-domain, for example along the boundary of the domain, with the only condition that a maximum angle is fulfilled in each element.This discretisation is motivated by applications on moving domains as arising e.g. in fluid-structure interaction or multiphase-flow problems. To deal with the anisotropies, we define a modification of the original Continuous Interior Penalty stabilisation approach. We show analytically the discrete stability of the method and convergence of order $calO(h^{3/2})$ in the energy norm and $calO(h^{5/2})$ in the $L^2$-norm of the velocities. We present numerical examples for a linear Stokes problem and for a non-linear fluid-structure interaction problem, that substantiate the analytical results and show the capabilities of the approach.

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