The weak Galerkin finite element method for Stokes interface problems with curved interface

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element scheme for the Stokes interface problems with curved interface. The conventional numerical schemes rely on the use of straight segments to approximate the curved interface and the accuracy is limited by geometric errors. Hence in our method, we directly construct the weak Galerkin finite element space on the curved cells to avoid geometric errors. For the integral calculation on curved cells, we employ non-affine transformations to map curved cells onto the reference element. The optimal error estimates are obtained in both the energy norm and the $L^2$ norm. A series of numerical experiments are provided to validate the efficiency of the proposed WG method.