06-44
A unified convergence analysis for local projection stabilisations
by Matthies, G.; Skrzypacz, P.; Tobiska, L.
Preprint series: 06-44, Preprints
- MSC:
- 65N12 Stability and convergence of numerical methods
- 65N30 Finite elements, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods, finite methods
- 76D05 Navier-Stokes equations, See also {35Q30}
Abstract: The discretisation of the Oseen problem by finite element methods suffers in general from two reasons. First, the discrete inf-sup (Babu\v{s}ka--Brezzi) condition can be violated. Second, spurious oscillations occur due to the dominating convection. One way to overcome both difficulties is the use of local projection techniques. Studying the local projection method in an abstract setting, we show that the fulfilment of a local inf-sup condition between approximation and projection spaces allows to construct an interpolation with additional orthogonality properties. Based on this special interpolation, optimal a-priori error estimates are shown with error constants independent of the Reynolds number. Applying the general theory, we extend the results of Braack and Burman for the standard two-level version of the local projection stabilisation to discretisations of arbitrary order on simplices, quadrilaterals, and hexahedra. Moreover, our general theory allows to derive a novel class of local projection stabilisation by enrichment of the approximation spaces. This class of stabilised schemes uses approximation and projection spaces defined on the same mesh and leads to much more compact stencils than in the two-level approach. Finally, on simplices, the spectral equivalence of the stabilising terms of the local projection method and the subgrid modeling introduced by Guermond is shown. This clarifies the relation of the local projection stabilisation to the variational multiscale approach.
Keywords: Stabilised finite elements, Navier--Stokes equations, equal-order
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