This paper presents a semi-implicit spectral deferred correction (SDC) method for incompressible Navier-Stokes problems with variable viscosity and time-dependent boundary conditions. The proposed method integrates elements of velocity- and pressure-correction schemes, which yields a simpler pressure handling and a smaller splitting error than the SDPC method of Minion & Saye (J. Comput. Phys. 375: 797-822, 2018). Combined with the discontinuous Galerkin spectral-element method for spatial discretization it can in theory reach arbitrary order of accuracy in time and space. Numerical experiments in three space dimensions demonstrate up to order 12 in time and 17 in space for constant as well as varying, solution-dependent viscosity. Compared to SDPC the present method yields a substantial improvement of accuracy and robustness against order reduction caused by time-dependent boundary conditions.
An alternative first step approximation based on subgrid artificial viscosity modeling (SAV) is proposed for defect-deferred correction method (DDC) for incompresible Navier-Stokes equation at high Reynolds number. This new approach not only preserves all qualifications of the conventional artificial viscosity (AV) based DDC, such as unconditional stability, high order of accuracy and so on, it has also shown its superiority over choosing AV approximation in the predictor step. Both theory and computational results presented in this paper illustrate that this alternative approach indeed increa…
A defect-deferred correction method, increasing both temporal and spatial accuracy, for fluid-fluid interaction problem with nonlinear interface condition is considered by geometric averaging of the previous two-time levels. In the defect step, an artificial viscosity is added only on the fluctuations in the velocity gradient by removing this effect on a coarse mesh. The dissipative influence of the artificial viscosity is further eliminated in the correction step while gaining additional temporal accuracy at the same time. The stability and accuracy analyses of the resulting algorithm are inv…
This report extends the mathematical support of a subgrid artificial viscosity (SAV) method to simulate the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to better performing a linearly extrapolated BDF2 (BDF2LE) time discretization. The method considers the viscous term as a combination of the vorticity and the grad-div stabilization term. SAV method introduces global stabilization by adding a term, then antidiffuses through the extra mixed variables. We present a detailed analysis of conservation laws, including both energy and helicity balance of the method. We also show that the approximate solut…
We propose a spectral viscosity method to approximate the two-dimensional Euler equations with rough initial data and prove that the method converges to a weak solution for a large class of initial data, including when the initial vorticity is in the so-called Delort class i.e. it is a sum of a signed measure and an integrable function. This provides the first convergence proof for a numerical method approximating the Euler equations with such rough initial data and closes the gap between the available existence theory and rigorous convergence results for numerical methods. We also present num…
This paper investigates the competitiveness of semi-implicit Runge-Kutta (RK) and spectral deferred correction (SDC) time-integration methods up to order six for incompressible Navier-Stokes problems in conjunction with a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for space discretization. It is proposed to harness the implicit and explicit RK parts as a partitioned scheme, which provides a natural basis for the underlying projection scheme and yields a straight-forward approach for accommodating nonlinear viscosity. Numerical experiments on laminar flow, variable viscosity and transition to tur…
A new mixed potential representation for the equations of unsteady, incompressible flow
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University（纽约大学柯朗数学科学研究所）；Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation（西蒙斯基金会平顿研究所）；Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology（新泽西理工学院数学科学系）
We present augmented Lagrangian Schur complement preconditioners and robust multigrid methods for incompressible Stokes problems with extreme viscosity variations. Such Stokes systems arise, for instance, upon linearization of nonlinear viscous flow problems, and they can have severely inhomogeneous and anisotropic coefficients. Using an augmented Lagrangian formulation for the incompressibility constraint makes the Schur complement easier to approximate, but results in a nearly singular (1,1)-block in the Stokes system. We present eigenvalue estimates for the quality of the Schur complement a…
We present an arbitrarily high-order, conditionally stable, partitioned spectral deferred correction (SDC) method for solving multiphysics problems using a sequence of pre-existing single-physics solvers. This method extends the work in [1, 2], which used implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods (IMEX) to build high-order, partitioned multiphysics solvers. We consider a generic multiphysics problem modeled as a system of coupled ordinary differential equations (ODEs), coupled through coupling terms that can depend on the state of each subsystem; therefore the method applies to both a semi-discret…
In this paper, we present strong numerical evidences that the incompressible axisymmetric Euler equations with degenerate viscosity coefficients and smooth initial data of finite energy develop a potential finite-time locally self-similar singularity at the origin. An important feature of this potential singularity is that the solution develops a two-scale traveling wave that travels towards the origin. The two-scale feature is characterized by the scaling property that the center of the traveling wave is located at a ring of radius $O((T-t)^{1/2})$ surrounding the symmetry axis while the thic…
In this note, we consider a viscous incompressible fluid in a finite domain in both two and three dimensions, and examine the question of determining degrees of freedom (projections, functionals, and nodes). Our particular interest is the case of non-constant viscosity, representing either a fluid with viscosity that changes over time (such as an oil that loses viscosity as it degrades), or a fluid with viscosity varying spatially (as in the case of two-phase or multi-phase fluid models). Our goal is to apply the determining projection framework developed by the second author in previous work …
We propose and study the framework of dissipative statistical solutions for the incompressible Euler equations. Statistical solutions are time-parameterized probability measures on the space of square-integrable functions, whose time-evolution is determined from the underlying Euler equations. We prove partial well-posedness results for dissipative statistical solutions and propose a Monte Carlo type algorithm, based on spectral viscosity spatial discretizations, to approximate them. Under verifiable hypotheses on the computations, we prove that the approximations converge to a statistical sol…
We prove the conservation of energy for weak and statistical solutions of the two-dimensional Euler equations, generated as strong (in an appropriate topology) limits of the underlying Navier-Stokes equations and a Monte Carlo-Spectral Viscosity numerical approximation, respectively. We characterize this conservation of energy in terms of a uniform decay of the so-called structure function, allowing us to extend existing results on energy conservation. Moreover, we present numerical experiments with a wide variety of initial data to validate our theory and to observe energy conservation in a l…
A novel reduced-order model (ROM) formulation for incompressible flows is presented with the key property that it exhibits non-linearly stability, independent of the mesh (of the full order model), the time step, the viscosity, and the number of modes. The two essential elements to non-linear stability are: (1) first discretise the full order model, and then project the discretised equations, and (2) use spatial and temporal discretisation schemes for the full order model that are globally energy-conserving (in the limit of vanishing viscosity). For this purpose, as full order model a staggere…
