Fast solution of incompressible flow problems with two-level pressure approximation

Jennifer Pestana, David J. Silvester

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Abstract

This paper develops efficient preconditioned iterative solvers for incompressible flow problems discretised by an enriched Taylor-Hood mixed approximation, in which the usual pressure space is augmented by a piecewise constant pressure to ensure local mass conservation. This enrichment process causes over-specification of the pressure when the pressure space is defined by the union of standard Taylor-Hood basis functions and piecewise constant pressure basis functions, which complicates the design and implementation of efficient solvers for the resulting linear systems. We first describe the impact of this choice of pressure space specification on the matrices involved. Next, we show how to recover effective solvers for Stokes problems, with preconditioners based on the singular pressure mass matrix, and for Oseen systems arising from linearised Navier-Stokes equations, by using a two-stage pressure convection-diffusion strategy. The codes used to generate the numerical results are available online.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1579-1602
Number of pages24
JournalNumerische Mathematik
Volume156
Issue number4
Early online date17 Jun 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2024

Keywords

  • incompressible flow
  • Taylor Hood
  • Stokes problem

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