2012/03/21 by Antonio Márquez, Márquez, Antonio, Salim Meddahi +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · #Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics #Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics #FOS: Mathematics #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1203.4717
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The aim of this paper is to propose a systematic way to obtain convergent finite element schemes for the Darcy-Stokes flow problem by combining well-known mixed finite elements that are separately convergent for Darcy and Stokes problems. In the approach in which the Darcy problem is set in its natural H(div) formulation and the Stokes problem is expressed in velocity-pressure form, the transmission condition ensuring global mass conservation becomes essential. As opposed to the strategy that handles weakly this transmission condition through a Lagrange multiplier, we impose here this restriction exactly in the space of global velocity field. Our analysis of the Galerkin discretization of the resulting problem reveals that, if the mixed finite element space used in the Darcy domain admits an H(div)-stable discrete lifting of the normal trace, then it can be combined with any stable Stokes mixed finite element of the same order to deliver a stable global method with quasi-optimal convergence rate. Finally, we present a series of numerical tests confirming our theoretical convergence estimates.