• Media type: Text; Report; E-Book
  • Title: New connections between finite element formulations of the Navier--Stokes equations
  • Contributor: Bowers, Abigail L. [Author]; Cousins, Benjamin R. [Author]; Linke, Alexander [Author]; Rebholz, Leo G. [Author]
  • Published: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2010
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1516
  • Keywords: 47.11.Fg ; Navier-Stokes equations -- rotational form -- Scott-Vogelius element -- strong mass conservation ; 76D05 ; 65M60 ; article
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  • Description: We show the velocity solutions to the convective, skew-symmetric, and rotational Galerkin finite element formulations of the Navier-Stokes equations are identical if Scott-Vogelius elements are used, and thus all three formulations will the same pointwise divergence free solution velocity. A connection is then established between the formulations for grad-div stabilized Taylor-Hood elements: under mild restrictions, the formulations' velocity solutions converge to each other (and to the Scott-Vogelius solution) as the stabilization parameter tends to infinity. Thus the benefits of using Scott-Vogelius elements can be obtained with the less expensive Taylor-Hood elements, and moreover the benefits of all the formulations can be retained if the rotational formulation is used. Numerical examples are provided that confirm the theory.