The authors establish error estimates for recently developed finite-element methods for incompressible viscous flow in domains with no-slip boundary conditions.The methods arise by discretization of a well-posed exten...The authors establish error estimates for recently developed finite-element methods for incompressible viscous flow in domains with no-slip boundary conditions.The methods arise by discretization of a well-posed extended Navier-Stokes dynamics for which pressure is determined from current velocity and force fields.The methods use C1 elements for velocity and C0 elements for pressure.A stability estimate is proved for a related finite-element projection method close to classical time-splitting methods of Orszag,Israeli,DeVille and Karniadakis.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Science Foundation (Nos.DMS 06-04420 (RLP),DMS 08-11177(JGL))the Center for Nonlinear Analysis (CNA) under National Science Foundation Grant (Nos.0405343,0635983)
文摘The authors establish error estimates for recently developed finite-element methods for incompressible viscous flow in domains with no-slip boundary conditions.The methods arise by discretization of a well-posed extended Navier-Stokes dynamics for which pressure is determined from current velocity and force fields.The methods use C1 elements for velocity and C0 elements for pressure.A stability estimate is proved for a related finite-element projection method close to classical time-splitting methods of Orszag,Israeli,DeVille and Karniadakis.