A convergent FEM-DG method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations

This paper presents a new numerical method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations governing the flow of an ideal isentropic gas. To approximate the continuity equation, the method utilizes a discontinuous Galerkin discretization on piecewise constants and a basic upwind flux. For the momentum...

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Main Author Karper, Trygve K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 19.06.2012
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Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs
Mathematics - Numerical Analysis
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Summary:This paper presents a new numerical method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations governing the flow of an ideal isentropic gas. To approximate the continuity equation, the method utilizes a discontinuous Galerkin discretization on piecewise constants and a basic upwind flux. For the momentum equation, the method is a new combined discontinuous Galerkin and finite element method approximating the velocity in the Crouzeix-Raviart finite element space. While the diffusion operator is discretized in a standard fashion, the convection and time-derivative are discretized using discontinuous Galerkin on the element average velocity and a Lax-Friedrich type flux. Our main result is convergence of the method to a global weak solution as discretization parameters go to zero. The convergence analysis constitutes a numerical version of the existence analysis of Lions and Feireisl.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1206.4368