A Mixed Finite Element Method on a Staggered Mesh for Navier-Stokes Equations

A Mixed Finite Element Method on a Staggered Mesh for Navier-Stokes Equations

Year:    2008

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 26 (2008), Iss. 6 : pp. 816–824

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a mixed finite element method on a staggered mesh for the numerical solution of the steady state Navier-Stokes equations in which the two components of the velocity and the pressure are defined on three different meshes. This method is a conforming quadrilateral $Q_1\times Q_1-P_0$ element approximation for the Navier-Stokes equations. First-order error estimates are obtained for both the velocity and the pressure. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2008-JCM-8661

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 26 (2008), Iss. 6 : pp. 816–824

Published online:    2008-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    9

Keywords:    Mixed finite element method Staggered mesh Navier-Stokes equations Error estimate.