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A hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the Navier--Stokes equations with pointwise divergence-free velocity field

Numerical Analysis 2023-07-04 v2 Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We introduce a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations for which the approximate velocity field is pointwise divergence-free. The method builds on the method presented by Labeur and Wells [SIAM J. Sci. Comput., vol. 34 (2012), pp. A889--A913]. We show that with modifications of the function spaces in the method of Labeur and Wells it is possible to formulate a simple method with pointwise divergence-free velocity fields which is momentum conserving, energy stable, and pressure-robust. Theoretical results are supported by two- and three-dimensional numerical examples and for different orders of polynomial approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1704.07569,
  title  = {A hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the Navier--Stokes equations with pointwise divergence-free velocity field},
  author = {Sander Rhebergen and Garth N. Wells},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07569},
  year   = {2023}
}