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Approximation of solutions to non-stationary Stokes system

Numerical Analysis 2019-10-29 v1 Numerical Analysis Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We propose a fast method for high order approximations of the solution of the Cauchy problem for the linear non-stationary Stokes system in R3R^3 in the unknown velocity u\bf u and kinematic pressure PP. The density f(x,t){\bf f}({\bf x},t) and the divergence vector-free initial value g(x){\bf g }(\bf x) are smooth and rapidly decreasing as x|\bf x| tends to infinity. We construct the vector u\bf u in the form u=u1+u2\bf u=\bf u_1+\bf u_2 where u1\bf u_1 solves a system of homogeneous heat equations and u2\bf u_2 solves a system of non-homogeneous heat equations with right-hand side fP{\bf f}-\nabla P. Moreover P=L(f)P=-{\cal L}( \nabla\cdot \bf f) where L\cal L denotes the harmonic potential. Fast semi-analytic cubature formulas for computing the harmonic potential and the solution of the heat equation based on the approximation of the data by functions with analitically known potentials are considered. In addition, the gradient P\nabla P can be approximated by the gradient of the cubature of PP, which is a semi-analytic formula too. We derive fast and accurate high order formulas for the approximation of u1,u2\bf u_1,\bf u_2, PP and P\nabla P. The accuracy of the method and the convergence order 2,4,62,4,6 and 88 are confirmed by numerical experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11894,
  title  = {Approximation of solutions to non-stationary Stokes system},
  author = {Flavia Lanzara and Vladimir Maz'ya and Gunther Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11894},
  year   = {2019}
}