Reconstructed Discontinuous Approximation to Stokes Equation in a Sequential Least Squares Formulation
Year: 2023
Author: Ruo Li, Fanyi Yang
Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 41 (2023), Iss. 1 : pp. 39–71
Abstract
We propose a new least squares finite element method to solve the Stokes problem with two sequential steps. The approximation spaces are constructed by the patch reconstruction with one unknown per element. For the first step, we reconstruct an approximation space consisting of piecewise curl-free polynomials with zero trace. By this space, we minimize a least squares functional to obtain the numerical approximations to the gradient of the velocity and the pressure. In the second step, we minimize another least squares functional to give the solution to the velocity in the reconstructed piecewise divergence-free space. We derive error estimates for all unknowns under both $L^2$ norms and energy norms. Numerical results in two dimensions and three dimensions verify the convergence rates and demonstrate the great flexibility of our method.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2104-m2020-0231
Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 41 (2023), Iss. 1 : pp. 39–71
Published online: 2023-01
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Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 33
Keywords: Stokes problem Least squares finite element method Reconstructed discontinuous approximation Solenoid and irrotational polynomial bases.