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Versatile Mixed Methods for Non-Isothermal Incompressible Flows

Computational Physics 2020-07-20 v1

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to extend the versatile mixed methods originally developed by Chen and Williams for isothermal flows in "Versatile Mixed Methods for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations," Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2020, (under review), to simulate non-isothermal incompressible flows. These new mixed methods are particularly interesting, as with only minor modifications they can be applied to a much broader range of flows, including non-isothermal weakly-compressible flows, and fully-compressible flows. In the main body of this paper, we carefully develop these mixed methods for solving the Boussinesq model equations. Thereafter, we prove the L2-stability of the discrete temperature field, and assess the practical behavior of the methods by applying them to a set of well-known convection problems.

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@article{arxiv.2007.08679,
  title  = {Versatile Mixed Methods for Non-Isothermal Incompressible Flows},
  author = {Edward A. Miller and Xi Chen and David M. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08679},
  year   = {2020}
}

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37 pages, 6 figures

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