Variational and thermodynamically consistent finite element discretization for heat conducting viscous fluids

DOI10.1142/S0218202524500027arXiv2211.08745OpenAlexW4323321311MaRDI QIDQ6417439FDOQ6417439

Authors: Evan S. Gawlik, François Gay-Balmaz 

Publication date: 16 November 2022

Abstract: Respecting the laws of thermodynamics is crucial for ensuring that numerical simulations of dynamical systems deliver physically relevant results. In this paper, we construct a structure-preserving and thermodynamically consistent finite element method and time-stepping scheme for heat conducting viscous fluids. The method is deduced by discretizing a variational formulation for nonequilibrium thermodynamics that extends Hamilton's principle for fluids to systems with irreversible processes. The resulting scheme preserves the balance of energy and mass to machine precision, as well as the second law of thermodynamics, both at the spatially and temporally discrete levels. The method is shown to apply both with insulated and prescribed heat flux boundary conditions, as well as with prescribed temperature boundary conditions. We illustrate the properties of the scheme with the Rayleigh-B'enard thermal convection. While the focus is on heat conducting viscous fluids, the proposed discrete variational framework paves the way to a systematic construction of thermodynamically consistent discretizations of continuum systems.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218202524500027

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics (37K65) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Symmetry analysis, Lie group and Lie algebra methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M60) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M10) General theory of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, conservation laws (37K06)

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