Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
500320 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2007 18 Pages PDF
Abstract

The design and analysis of a class of stabilization operators suitable for space–time Galerkin least-squares finite element discretizations of the symmetrized compressible Navier–Stokes equations is discussed. The obtained stabilization matrix is well defined in the incompressible limit and reduces to the matrix described in [M. Polner, J.J.W. van der Vegt, R.M.J. van Damme, Analysis of stabilization operators for Galerkin least-squares discretizations of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 195 (2006) 982–1006]. The stabilization matrix is investigated to give necessary and sufficient conditions for its positive definiteness. Under these conditions on the stabilization matrix, the Galerkin least-squares method for the symmetrized compressible Navier–Stokes equations satisfies the entropy condition, which ensures global nonlinear stability of the discretization.

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