We study a defect correction method for the approximation of viscoelastic fluid flow. In the defect step, the constitutive equation is computed with an artificially reduced Weissenberg parameter for stability, and the resulting residual is corrected in the correction step. We prove the convergence of the defect correction method and derive an error estimate for the Oseen-viscoelastic model problem. The derived theoretical results are supported by numerical tests for both the Oseen-viscoelastic problem and the Johnson-Segalman model problem.
A solution algorithm for the linear/nonlinear Stokes-Darcy coupled problem is proposed and investigated. The coupled system is formulated as a constrained optimal control problem, where a flow balance is forced across the interface, inflow, and outflow boundaries by minimizing a suitably defined functional. Optimization is achieved by exploiting a Neumann type boundary condition imposed on each subproblem as a control. A numerical algorithm is presented for a least squares functional whose solution yields a minimizer of the constrained optimization problem. Numerical experiments are provided to validate accuracy and efficiency of the algorithm.
The numerical simulation of viscoelastic fluid flow becomes more difficult as a physical parameter, the Weissenberg number, increases. Specifically, at a Weissenberg number larger than a critical value, the iterative nonlinear solver fails to converge. In this paper a two-parameter defect-correction method for viscoelastic fluid flow is presented and analyzed. In the defect step the Weissenberg number is artificially reduced to solve a stable nonlinear problem. The approximation is then improved in the correction step using a linearized correction iteration. Numerical experiments support the theoretical results and demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.
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