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On the spurious pressures generated by certain GFEM solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

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OSTI ID:5515563

The spurious pressures and acceptable velocities generated when using certain combinations of velocity and pressure approximations in a Galerkin finite element discretization of the primitive variable form of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are analyzed both theoretically and numerically for grids composed of quadrilateral finite elements. Schemes for obtaining usable pressure fields from the spurious numerical results are presented for certain cases.

Research Organization:
California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
5515563
Report Number(s):
UCRL-82867; CONF-800613-4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English