An efficient splitting iteration for a CDA-accelerated solver for incompressible flow problems

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fisher, Victoria L., Rebholz, Leo G., Vargun, Duygu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916951061692416
author Fisher, Victoria L.
Rebholz, Leo G.
Vargun, Duygu
author_facet Fisher, Victoria L.
Rebholz, Leo G.
Vargun, Duygu
contents We propose, analyze, and test an efficient splitting iteration for solving the incompressible, steady Navier-Stokes equations in the setting where partial solution data is known. The (possibly noisy) solution data is incorporated into a Picard-type solver via continuous data assimilation (CDA). Efficiency is gained over the usual Picard iteration through an algebraic splitting of Yosida-type that produces easier linear solves, and accuracy/consistency is shown to be maintained through the use of an incremental pressure and grad-div stabilization. We prove that CDA scales the Lipschitz constant of the associated fixed point operator by $H^{1/2}$, where $H$ is the characteristic spacing of the known solution data. This implies that CDA accelerates an already converging solver (and the more data, the more acceleration) and enables convergence of solvers in parameter regimes where the solver would fail (and the more data, the larger the parameter regime). Numerical tests illustrate the theory on several benchmark test problems and show that the proposed efficient solver gives nearly identical results in terms of number of iterations to converge; in other words, the proposed solver gives an efficiency gain with no loss in convergence rate.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2509_12547
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle An efficient splitting iteration for a CDA-accelerated solver for incompressible flow problems
Fisher, Victoria L.
Rebholz, Leo G.
Vargun, Duygu
Numerical Analysis
We propose, analyze, and test an efficient splitting iteration for solving the incompressible, steady Navier-Stokes equations in the setting where partial solution data is known. The (possibly noisy) solution data is incorporated into a Picard-type solver via continuous data assimilation (CDA). Efficiency is gained over the usual Picard iteration through an algebraic splitting of Yosida-type that produces easier linear solves, and accuracy/consistency is shown to be maintained through the use of an incremental pressure and grad-div stabilization. We prove that CDA scales the Lipschitz constant of the associated fixed point operator by $H^{1/2}$, where $H$ is the characteristic spacing of the known solution data. This implies that CDA accelerates an already converging solver (and the more data, the more acceleration) and enables convergence of solvers in parameter regimes where the solver would fail (and the more data, the larger the parameter regime). Numerical tests illustrate the theory on several benchmark test problems and show that the proposed efficient solver gives nearly identical results in terms of number of iterations to converge; in other words, the proposed solver gives an efficiency gain with no loss in convergence rate.
title An efficient splitting iteration for a CDA-accelerated solver for incompressible flow problems
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12547