A TWO-LEVEL FINITE ELEMENT GALERKIN METHOD FOR THE NONSTATIONARY NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS I: SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2004-01-11
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Inthisarticleweconsideratwo-levelfiniteelementGalerkinmethodusingmixedfiniteelementsforthetwo-dimensionalnonstationaryincompressibleNavier-Stokesequations.ThemethodyieldsaH^1-optimalvelocityapproximationandaL^2-optimalpressureapproximation.Thetwo-levelfiniteelementGalerkinmethodinvolvessolvingonesmall,nonlinearNavier-StokesproblemonthecoarsemeshwithmeshsizeH,onelinearStokesproblemonthefinemeshwithmeshsizeh<