In this paper a mixed finite element method for the convection dominated diffusion problems with small parameter ε is presented,the effect of the parameter ε on the approximation error is considered and a su...In this paper a mixed finite element method for the convection dominated diffusion problems with small parameter ε is presented,the effect of the parameter ε on the approximation error is considered and a sufficient condition for optimal error estimates is derived.The paper also shows that under some conditions,the standard finite element method only gives a bounded solution,however the mixed finite element method gives a convergent one. Received March 1,1997. 1991 MR Subject Classification: 65N30,65M15.展开更多
In this paper,we apply streamline-diffusion and Galerkin-least-squares fi-nite element methods for 2D steady-state two-phase model in the cathode of polymer electrolyte fuel cell(PEFC)that contains a gas channel and a...In this paper,we apply streamline-diffusion and Galerkin-least-squares fi-nite element methods for 2D steady-state two-phase model in the cathode of polymer electrolyte fuel cell(PEFC)that contains a gas channel and a gas diffusion layer(GDL).This two-phase PEFC model is typically modeled by a modified Navier-Stokes equation for the mass and momentum,with Darcy’s drag as an additional source term in momentum for flows through GDL,and a discontinuous and degenerate convectiondiffusion equation for water concentration.Based on the mixed finite element method for the modified Navier-Stokes equation and standard finite element method for water equation,we design streamline-diffusion and Galerkin-least-squares to overcome the dominant convection arising from the gas channel.Meanwhile,we employ Kirchhoff transformation to deal with the discontinuous and degenerate diffusivity in water concentration.Numerical experiments demonstrate that our finite element methods,together with these numerical techniques,are able to get accurate physical solutions with fast convergence.展开更多
文摘In this paper a mixed finite element method for the convection dominated diffusion problems with small parameter ε is presented,the effect of the parameter ε on the approximation error is considered and a sufficient condition for optimal error estimates is derived.The paper also shows that under some conditions,the standard finite element method only gives a bounded solution,however the mixed finite element method gives a convergent one. Received March 1,1997. 1991 MR Subject Classification: 65N30,65M15.
基金This work was supported in part by NSF DMS-0609727,the Center for Computa-tional Mathematics and Applications of Penn State University.J.Xu was also supported in part by NSFC-10501001 and Alexander H.Humboldt Foundation.
文摘In this paper,we apply streamline-diffusion and Galerkin-least-squares fi-nite element methods for 2D steady-state two-phase model in the cathode of polymer electrolyte fuel cell(PEFC)that contains a gas channel and a gas diffusion layer(GDL).This two-phase PEFC model is typically modeled by a modified Navier-Stokes equation for the mass and momentum,with Darcy’s drag as an additional source term in momentum for flows through GDL,and a discontinuous and degenerate convectiondiffusion equation for water concentration.Based on the mixed finite element method for the modified Navier-Stokes equation and standard finite element method for water equation,we design streamline-diffusion and Galerkin-least-squares to overcome the dominant convection arising from the gas channel.Meanwhile,we employ Kirchhoff transformation to deal with the discontinuous and degenerate diffusivity in water concentration.Numerical experiments demonstrate that our finite element methods,together with these numerical techniques,are able to get accurate physical solutions with fast convergence.
