Characteristic stabilized finite element method for non-stationary conduction-convection problems

Yongshuai Wang, Md Abdullah Al Mahbub, Haibiao Zheng*

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Abstract

Purpose: This paper aims to propose a characteristic stabilized finite element method for non-stationary conduction-convection problems. Design/methodology/approach: To avoid difficulty caused by the trilinear term, the authors use the characteristic method to deal with the time derivative term and the advection term. The space discretization adopts the low-order triples (i.e. P1-P1-P1 and P1-P0-P1 triples). As low-order triples do not satisfy inf-sup condition, the authors use the stability technique to overcome this flaw. Findings: The stability and the convergence analysis shows that the method is stable and has optimal-order error estimates. Originality/value: Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical analysis and illustrate that the authors’ method is highly effective and reliable, and consumes less CPU time.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)625-658
Number of pages34
JournalInternational Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow
Volume30
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jan 2020

Keywords

  • Characteristic method
  • Convergence analysis
  • Non-stationary conduction–convection problems
  • Stability analysis
  • Stabilized method

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