A two-level newton, finite element algorithm for approximating electrically conducting incompressible fluid flows

Autor: William Layton, H.W.J. Lenferink, Janet S. Peterson
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 28, 21-31
Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 28, 5, pp. 21-31
ISSN: 0898-1221
DOI: 10.1016/0898-1221(94)00137-5
Popis: We consider the approximation of stationary, electrically conducting, incompressible fluid flow problems at small magnetic Reynolds number. The finite element discretization of these systems leads to a very large system of nonlinear equations. We consider a solution algorithm which involves solving a much smaller number of nonlinear equations on a coarse mesh, then one large linear system on a fine mesh. Under a uniqueness condition, this one-step, two-level Newton-FEM procedure is shown to produce an optimally accurate solution. This result extends both the two-level method of Xu [1,2] from elliptic boundary value problems to MHD problems, and the energy norm error analysis of Peterson [3] (see also [4]) of MHD problems at a small magnetic Reynolds number to L2 error estimates and multilevel discretization and solution procedures.
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