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TWO-LEVEL MULTISCALE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR THE STEADY NAVIER-STOKES PROBLEM

  • WEN Juan ,
  • HE Yin-Nian ,
  • WANG Xue-Min ,
  • HE Mi-Hui
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  • 1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China;
    2. Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, Colloge Station, Texas 77843, USA

Received date: 2012-12-03

  Online published: 2014-05-20

Abstract

In this article, on the basis of two-level discretizations and multiscale finite el-ement method, two kinds of finite element algorithms for steady Navier-Stokes problem are presented and discussed. The main technique is first to use a standard finite element dis-cretization on a coarse mesh to approximate low frequencies, then to apply the simple and Newton scheme to linearize discretizations on a fine grid. At this process, multiscale finite element method as a stabilized method deals with the lowest equal-order finite element pairs not satisfying the inf-sup condition. Under the uniqueness condition, error analyses for both algorithms are given. Numerical results are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the simple and Newton scheme.

Cite this article

WEN Juan , HE Yin-Nian , WANG Xue-Min , HE Mi-Hui . TWO-LEVEL MULTISCALE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR THE STEADY NAVIER-STOKES PROBLEM[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2014 , 34(3) : 960 -972 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(14)60062-X

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