A three-step defect-correction stabilized algorithm for incompressible flows with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions

Abstract

Based on two-grid discretizations and quadratic equal-order finite elements for the velocity and pressure approximations, we develop a three-step defect-correction stabilized algorithm for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, where non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions are considered and high Reynolds numbers are allowed. In this developed algorithm, we first solve an artificial viscosity stabilized nonlinear problem on a coarse grid in a defect step and then correct the resulting residual by solving two stabilized and linearized problems on a fine grid in correction steps. While the fine grid correction problems have the same stiffness matrices with only different right-hand sides. We use a variational multiscale method to stabilize the system, making the algorithm has a broad range of potential applications in the simulation of high Reynolds number flows. Under the weak uniqueness condition, we give a stability analysis of the present algorithm, analyze the error bounds of the approximate solutions, and derive the algorithmic parameter scalings. Finally, we perform a series of numerical examples to demonstrate the promise of the proposed algorithm.