Mapped coercivity for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations and their finite element approximations

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Main Authors: Becker, Roland, Braack, Malte
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contents This paper addresses the challenge of proving the existence of solutions for nonlinear equations in Banach spaces, focusing on the Navier-Stokes equations and discretizations of thom. Traditional methods, such as monotonicity-based approaches and fixed-point theorems, often face limitations in handling general nonlinear operators or finite element discretizations. A novel concept, mapped coercivity, provides a unifying framework to analyze nonlinear operators through a continuous mapping. We apply these ideas to saddle-point problems in Banach spaces, emphasizing both infinite-dimensional formulations and finite element discretizations. Our analysis includes stabilization techniques to restore coercivity in finite-dimensional settings, ensuring stability and existence of solutions. For linear problems, we explore the relationship between the inf-sup condition and mapped coercivity, using the Stokes equation as a case study. For nonlinear saddle-point systems, we extend the framework to mapped coercivity via surjective mappings, enabling concise proofs of existence of solutions for various stabilized Navier-Stokes finite element methods. These include Brezzi-Pitkäranta, a simple variant, and local projection stabilization (LPS) techniques, with extensions to convection-dominant flows. The proposed methodology offers a robust tool for analyzing nonlinear PDEs and their discretizations, bypassing traditional decompositions and providing a foundation for future developments in computational fluid dynamics.
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spellingShingle Mapped coercivity for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations and their finite element approximations
Becker, Roland
Braack, Malte
Numerical Analysis
This paper addresses the challenge of proving the existence of solutions for nonlinear equations in Banach spaces, focusing on the Navier-Stokes equations and discretizations of thom. Traditional methods, such as monotonicity-based approaches and fixed-point theorems, often face limitations in handling general nonlinear operators or finite element discretizations. A novel concept, mapped coercivity, provides a unifying framework to analyze nonlinear operators through a continuous mapping. We apply these ideas to saddle-point problems in Banach spaces, emphasizing both infinite-dimensional formulations and finite element discretizations. Our analysis includes stabilization techniques to restore coercivity in finite-dimensional settings, ensuring stability and existence of solutions. For linear problems, we explore the relationship between the inf-sup condition and mapped coercivity, using the Stokes equation as a case study. For nonlinear saddle-point systems, we extend the framework to mapped coercivity via surjective mappings, enabling concise proofs of existence of solutions for various stabilized Navier-Stokes finite element methods. These include Brezzi-Pitkäranta, a simple variant, and local projection stabilization (LPS) techniques, with extensions to convection-dominant flows. The proposed methodology offers a robust tool for analyzing nonlinear PDEs and their discretizations, bypassing traditional decompositions and providing a foundation for future developments in computational fluid dynamics.
title Mapped coercivity for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations and their finite element approximations
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00494