Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry

In this article we consider the a posteriori error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement of discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximations of the bifurcation problem associated with the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Particular attention is given to the reliable error estimat...

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Main Authors: Cliffe, Andrew, Hall, Edward, Houston, Paul, Phipps, Eric T., Salinger, Andrew G.
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1437/
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author Cliffe, Andrew
Hall, Edward
Houston, Paul
Phipps, Eric T.
Salinger, Andrew G.
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Phipps, Eric T.
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description In this article we consider the a posteriori error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement of discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximations of the bifurcation problem associated with the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Particular attention is given to the reliable error estimation of the critical Reynolds number at which a steady pitchfork bifurcation occurs when the underlying physical system possesses rotational and reflectional or O(2) symmetry. Here, computable a posteriori error bounds are derived based on employing the generalization of the standard Dual Weighted Residual approach, originally developed for the estimation of target functionals of the solution, to bifurcation problems. Numerical experiments highlighting the practical performance of the proposed a posteriori error indicator on adaptively refined computational meshes are presented. Here, particular attention is devoted to the problem of flow through a cylindrical pipe with a sudden expansion, which represents a notoriously difficult computational problem.
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spelling nottingham-14372020-05-04T20:22:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1437/ Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry Cliffe, Andrew Hall, Edward Houston, Paul Phipps, Eric T. Salinger, Andrew G. In this article we consider the a posteriori error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement of discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximations of the bifurcation problem associated with the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Particular attention is given to the reliable error estimation of the critical Reynolds number at which a steady pitchfork bifurcation occurs when the underlying physical system possesses rotational and reflectional or O(2) symmetry. Here, computable a posteriori error bounds are derived based on employing the generalization of the standard Dual Weighted Residual approach, originally developed for the estimation of target functionals of the solution, to bifurcation problems. Numerical experiments highlighting the practical performance of the proposed a posteriori error indicator on adaptively refined computational meshes are presented. Here, particular attention is devoted to the problem of flow through a cylindrical pipe with a sudden expansion, which represents a notoriously difficult computational problem. Springer Netherlands 2012 Article NonPeerReviewed Cliffe, Andrew, Hall, Edward, Houston, Paul, Phipps, Eric T. and Salinger, Andrew G. (2012) Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry. Journal of Scientific Computing, 52 (2). pp. 153-179. ISSN 0885-7474 (Submitted) http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10915-011-9545-8.pdf doi:10.1007/s10915-011-9545-8 doi:10.1007/s10915-011-9545-8
spellingShingle Cliffe, Andrew
Hall, Edward
Houston, Paul
Phipps, Eric T.
Salinger, Andrew G.
Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry
title Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry
title_full Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry
title_fullStr Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry
title_full_unstemmed Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry
title_short Adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems III: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with O(2) symmetry
title_sort adaptivity and a posteriori error control for bifurcation problems iii: incompressible fluid flow in open systems with o(2) symmetry
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