NOTE ON THE PROBLEM OF MOTION OF VISCOUS FLUID AROUND A ROTATING AND TRANSLATING RIGID BODY

We consider the linearized and nonlinear systems describing the motion of incompressible flow around a rotating and translating rigid body Ɗ in the exterior domain Ω = ℝ3 \ Ɗ, where Ɗ ⊂ ℝ3 is open and bounded, with Lipschitz boundary. We derive the L∞-estimates for the pressure and investigate the leading term for the velocity and its gradient. Moreover, we show that the velocity essentially behaves near the infinity as a constant times the first column of the fundamental solution of the Oseen system. Finally, we consider the Oseen problem in a bounded domain ΩR := BR ∩ Ω under certain artificial boundary conditions on the truncating boundary ∂BR, and then we compare this solution with the solution in the exterior domain Ω to get the truncation error estimate.

Edge Patch-Wise Local Projection Stabilized Nonconforming FEM for the Oseen Problem

In finite element approximation of the Oseen problem, one needs to handle two major difficulties, namely, the lack of stability due to convection dominance and the incompatibility between the approximating finite element spaces for the velocity and the pressure. These difficulties are addressed in this article by using an edge patch-wise local projection (EPLP) stabilization technique. The article analyses the EPLP stabilized nonconforming finite element methods for the Oseen problem. For approximating the velocity, the lowest-order Crouzeix–Raviart (CR) nonconforming finite element space is considered; whereas for approximating the pressure, two discrete spaces are considered, namely, the piecewise constant polynomial space and the lowest-order CR finite element space. The proposed discrete weak formulation is a combination of the standard Galerkin method, EPLP stabilization and weakly imposed boundary condition by using Nitsche’s technique. The resulting bilinear form satisfies an inf-sup condition with respect to EPLP norm, which leads to the well-posedness of the discrete problem. A priori error analysis assures the optimal order of convergence in both the cases, that is, order one in the case of piecewise constant approximation and \frac{3}{2} in the case of CR-finite element approximation for pressure. The numerical experiments illustrate the theoretical findings.

New Numerical Method for the Rotation form of the Oseen Problem with Corner Singularity

In the paper, a new numerical approach for the rotation form of the Oseen system in a polygon Ω with an internal corner ω greater than 180 ∘ on its boundary is presented. The results of computational simulations have shown that the convergence rate of the approximate solution (velocity field) by weighted FEM to the exact solution does not depend on the value of the internal corner ω and equals O ( h ) in the norm of a space W 2 , ν 1 ( Ω ) .