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Main Authors: García-Archilla, Bosco, John, V., Novo, Julia
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16917
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author García-Archilla, Bosco
John, V.
Novo, Julia
author_facet García-Archilla, Bosco
John, V.
Novo, Julia
contents Error bounds for fully discrete schemes for the evolutionary incompressible Navier--Stokes equations are derived in this paper. For the time integration we apply BDF-$q$ methods, $q\le 5$, for which error bounds for $q\ge 3$ cannot be found in the literature. Inf-sup stable mixed finite elements are used as spatial approximation. First, we analyze the standard Galerkin method and second a grad-div stabilized method. The grad-div stabilization allows to prove error bounds with constants independent of inverse powers of the viscosity coefficient. We prove optimal bounds for the velocity and pressure with order $(Δt)^q$ in time for the BDF-$q$ scheme and order $h^{k+1}$ for the $L^2(Ω)$ error of the velocity in the first case and $h^k$ in the second case, $k$ being the degree of the polynomials in finite element velocity space.
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spellingShingle Error analysis of BDF schemes for the evolutionary incompressible Navier--Stokes equations
García-Archilla, Bosco
John, V.
Novo, Julia
Numerical Analysis
Error bounds for fully discrete schemes for the evolutionary incompressible Navier--Stokes equations are derived in this paper. For the time integration we apply BDF-$q$ methods, $q\le 5$, for which error bounds for $q\ge 3$ cannot be found in the literature. Inf-sup stable mixed finite elements are used as spatial approximation. First, we analyze the standard Galerkin method and second a grad-div stabilized method. The grad-div stabilization allows to prove error bounds with constants independent of inverse powers of the viscosity coefficient. We prove optimal bounds for the velocity and pressure with order $(Δt)^q$ in time for the BDF-$q$ scheme and order $h^{k+1}$ for the $L^2(Ω)$ error of the velocity in the first case and $h^k$ in the second case, $k$ being the degree of the polynomials in finite element velocity space.
title Error analysis of BDF schemes for the evolutionary incompressible Navier--Stokes equations
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16917