Error estimates for finite-element Navier-Stokes solvers without standard Inf-Sup conditions

Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 743-768

  Liu, Jian Guo ^a   Liu, Jie ^b   Pego, Robert L ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward facing step; Driven cavity; Leray projection; Obtuse corner; Projection method; Recycling; Stokes pressure; Time dependent incompressible flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449096079     PISSN: 02529599     EISSN: 18606261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11401-009-0116-3     Document Type: Article

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