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Adaptive Incompressible Flow Computations with Linearly Implicit Time Discretization and Stabilized Finite Elements


SC 98-16 Jens Lang: Adaptive Incompressible Flow Computations with Linearly Implicit Time Discretization and Stabilized Finite Elements (Appeared in: Computational Fluid Dynamics 98, K.D. Papailiou, D. Tsahalis, J. Periaux, C. Hirsch, M. Pandolfi eds., John Wiley \& Sons, New York, 1998, 200-204)


Abstract: Fully adaptive solutions of imcompressible flow problems employing the discretization sequence first in time then in space are presented. The time discretization is done by linearly implicit one-step methods possibly of high order with automatic step size control. A posteriori error estimates for the stabilized finite element discretization in space are obtained by solving local Dirichlet problems with higher accuracy. Once those estimates have been computed, we are able to control time and space grids with respect to required tolerances and necessary computational work. The devised method is applied to two benchmark problems in 2D.
Keywords: Incompressible Flow, Adaptive Stabilized Finite Element, Linearly Implicit Time Discretization
MSC: 76M10