• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: MULTIGRID ANALYSIS FOR THE TIME DEPENDENT STOKES PROBLEM
  • Contributor: OLSHANSKII, MAXIM A.
  • Published: American Mathematical Society, 2012
  • Published in: Mathematics of Computation, 81 (2012) 277, Seite 57-79
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-2011-02494-4
  • ISSN: 0025-5718; 1088-6842
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  • Description: <p>Certain implicit time stepping procedures for the incompressible Stokes or Navier-Stokes equations lead to a singular-perturbed Stokes type problem at each time step. The paper presents a convergence analysis of a geometric multigrid solver for the system of linear algebraic equations resulting from the disretization of the problem using a finite element method. Several smoothing iterative methods are considered: a smoother based on distributive iterations, the Braess-Sarazin and inexact Uzawa smoother. Convergence analysis is based on smoothing and approximation properties in special norms. A robust (independent of time step and mesh parameter) estimate is proved for the two-grid and multigrid W-cycle convergence factors.</p>
  • Access State: Open Access