Reconstructed Discontinuous Approximation to Stokes Equation in A Sequential Least Squares Formulation

DOI10.4208/JCM.2104-M2020-0231MaRDI QIDQ6336097arXivFDO

Authors Ruo Li, Fanyi Yang

Publication date 4 March 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4208/JCM.2104-M2020-0231

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

arXiv classification

cs.NAmath.NA

Abstract: We propose a new least squares finite element method to solve the Stokes problem with two sequential steps. The approximation spaces are constructed by patch reconstruction with one unknown per element. For the first step, we reconstruct an approximation space consisting of piecewise curl-free polynomials with zero trace. By this space, we minimize a least squaresfunctional toobtain thenumericalapproximationstothe gradientof thevelocityand the pressure. In the second step, we minimize another least squares functional to give the solution to the velocity in the reconstructed piecewise divergence-free space. We derive error estimates for all unknowns under L2 norms and energy norms. Numerical results in two dimensions and three dimensions verify the convergence rates and demonstrate the great flexibility of our method.

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