Convergence towards weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for a finite element approximation with numerical subgrid scale modeling

Residual-based stabilized nite element techniques for the Navier-Stokes equations lead to numerical discretizations that provide convection stabilization as well as pressure stability without the need to satisfy an inf-sup condition. They can be motivated by using a variational multiscale framework,...

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Autores: Badia, Santiago|||0000-0003-2391-4086, Gutiérrez Santacreu, Juan Vicente
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/16920
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/16920
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Navier-Stokes equations
Equacions de Navier-Stokes
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Anàlisi numèrica::Mètodes en elements finits
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Sumario:Residual-based stabilized nite element techniques for the Navier-Stokes equations lead to numerical discretizations that provide convection stabilization as well as pressure stability without the need to satisfy an inf-sup condition. They can be motivated by using a variational multiscale framework, based on the decomposition of the uid velocity into a resolvable nite element component plus a modeled subgrid scale component. The subgrid closure acts as a large eddy simulation turbulence model, leading to accurate under-resolved simulations. However, even though variational multiscale formulations are increasingly used in the applied nite element community, their numerical analysis has been restricted to a priori estimates and convergence to smooth solutions only, via a priori error estimates. In this work we prove that some versions of these methods (based on dynamic and orthogonal closures) also converge to weak (turbulent) solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. These results are obtained by using compactness results in Bochner-Lebesgue spaces. Navier-Stokes equations; stability; convergence; stabilized nite element methods; subgrid scales; variational multiscale methods.