کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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519580 | 867672 | 2016 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

This contribution studies the influence of the pressure on the velocity error in finite element discretisations of the Navier–Stokes equations. Four simple benchmark problems that are all close to real-world applications convey that the pressure can be comparably large and is not to be underestimated. In fact, the velocity error can be arbitrarily large in such situations. Only pressure-robust mixed finite element methods, whose velocity error is pressure-independent, can avoid this influence. Indeed, the presented examples show that the pressure-dependent component in velocity error estimates for classical mixed finite element methods is sharp. In consequence, classical mixed finite element methods are not able to simulate some classes of real-world flows, even in cases where dominant convection and turbulence do not play a role.
Journal: Journal of Computational Physics - Volume 313, 15 May 2016, Pages 654–661