Unconditional error estimates for time dependent viscoelastic fluid flow

Haibiao Zheng, Jiaping Yu, Li Shan

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Abstract

The unconditional convergence of finite element method for two-dimensional time-dependent viscoelastic flow with an Oldroyd B constitutive equation is given in this paper, while all previous works require certain time-step restrictions. The approximation is stabilized by using the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approximation for the constitutive equation. The analysis bases on a splitting of the error into two parts: the error from the time discretization of the PDEs and the error from the finite element approximation of corresponding iterated time-discrete PDEs. The approach used in this paper can be applied to more general couple nonlinear parabolic and hyperbolic systems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-17
Number of pages17
JournalApplied Numerical Mathematics
Volume119
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2017

Keywords

  • DG method
  • Unconditional convergence
  • Viscoelastic fluid

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