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A high order term-by-term stabilization solver for incompressible flow problems. (English) Zbl 1426.76234

Summary: In this paper, we introduce a low-cost, high-order stabilized method for the numerical solution of incompressible flow problems. This is a particular type of projection-stabilized method where each targeted operator, such as the pressure gradient or the convection, is stabilized by least-squares terms added to the Galerkin formulation. The main methodological originality is that we replace the projection-stabilized structure by an interpolation-stabilized structure, with reduced computational cost for some choices of the interpolation operator. This stabilization has one level, in the sense that it is defined on a single mesh. We prove the stability of our formulation by means of a specific inf-sup condition, which is the main technical innovation of our paper. We perform a convergence and error estimates analysis, proving the optimal order of accuracy of our method. We include some numerical tests that confirm our theoretical expectations.

MSC:

76M10 Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics
76D05 Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids
65N12 Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
65N15 Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs
65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs