Inf-sup stabilized Scott--Vogelius pairs on general simplicial grids by Raviart--Thomas enrichment

DOI10.1142/S0218202524500180arXiv2206.01242OpenAlexW4391053415WikidataQ129663768 ScholiaQ129663768MaRDI QIDQ6400968FDOQ6400968

Authors: Volker John, Xu Li, C. Merdon, Hongxing Rui 

Publication date: 2 June 2022

Abstract: This paper considers the discretization of the Stokes equations with Scott--Vogelius pairs of finite element spaces on arbitrary shape-regular simplicial grids. A novel way of stabilizing these pairs with respect to the discrete inf-sup condition is proposed and analyzed. The key idea consists in enriching the continuous polynomials of order $k$ of the Scott--Vogelius velocity space with appropriately chosen and explicitly given Raviart--Thomas bubbles. This approach is inspired by [Li/Rui, IMA J. Numer. Anal, 2021], where the case $k=1$ was studied. The proposed method is pressure-robust, with optimally converging $$-conforming velocity and a small $$-conforming correction rendering the full velocity divergence-free. For $kged$, with $d$ being the dimension, the method is parameter-free. Furthermore, it is shown that the additional degrees of freedom for the Raviart--Thomas enrichment and also all non-constant pressure degrees of freedom can be condensated, effectively leading to a pressure-robust, inf-sup stable, optimally convergent $$ scheme. Aspects of the implementation are discussed and numerical studies confirm the analytic results.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218202524500180

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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)

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