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Title: Analysis of the shifted boundary method for the Stokes problem

Abstract

The analysis of stability and accuracy of the shifted boundary method is developed for the Stokes flow equations. The key feature of the shifted boundary method, an embedded finite element method, is the shifting of the location where boundary conditions are applied from the true to a surrogate boundary, and an appropriate modification (shifting) of the value of the boundary conditions. An inf–sup condition is proved for the variational formulation associated to the shifted boundary method and we derive, by way of Strang’s second lemma, an optimal error estimate in the natural SBM norm. Here we also derive an L2 -error estimate for the velocity field, by means of an extension of the Aubin–Nitsche approach to embedded, non-consistent, mixed finite element methods.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Duke University, Durham, NC (United States)
  2. Polytechnic of Turin, Torino (Italy)
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Research Org.:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); Army Research Office (ARO)
OSTI Identifier:
1802314
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1562158
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012169; W911NF-18-1-0308
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 358; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0045-7825
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; embedded methods; immersed boundary method; small cut-cell problem; approximate domain boundaries; weak boundary conditions; finite element method

Citation Formats

Atallah, Nabil M., Canuto, Claudio, and Scovazzi, Guglielmo. Analysis of the shifted boundary method for the Stokes problem. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1016/j.cma.2019.112609.
Atallah, Nabil M., Canuto, Claudio, & Scovazzi, Guglielmo. Analysis of the shifted boundary method for the Stokes problem. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.112609
Atallah, Nabil M., Canuto, Claudio, and Scovazzi, Guglielmo. Mon . "Analysis of the shifted boundary method for the Stokes problem". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.112609. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1802314.
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title = {Analysis of the shifted boundary method for the Stokes problem},
author = {Atallah, Nabil M. and Canuto, Claudio and Scovazzi, Guglielmo},
abstractNote = {The analysis of stability and accuracy of the shifted boundary method is developed for the Stokes flow equations. The key feature of the shifted boundary method, an embedded finite element method, is the shifting of the location where boundary conditions are applied from the true to a surrogate boundary, and an appropriate modification (shifting) of the value of the boundary conditions. An inf–sup condition is proved for the variational formulation associated to the shifted boundary method and we derive, by way of Strang’s second lemma, an optimal error estimate in the natural SBM norm. Here we also derive an L2 -error estimate for the velocity field, by means of an extension of the Aubin–Nitsche approach to embedded, non-consistent, mixed finite element methods.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cma.2019.112609},
journal = {Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering},
number = C,
volume = 358,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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