It is known that for the numerical approximation of Oldroyd's B model for viscoelastic ยฏuid ยฏows some upwinding is needed for the convection of the extra-stress tensor. In this paper we make the numerical analysis of such an approximation with upwinding by the method of characteristics in a ยฎnite el
Existence of approximate solutions and error bounds for viscoelastic fluid flow: Characteristics method
โ Scribed by J. Baranger; A. Machmoum
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 867 KB
- Volume
- 148
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0045-7825
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โฆ Synopsis
In this paper we study a finite element approximation of a steady viscoelastic fluid flow obeying an Oldroyd B type constitutive law. The approximate :stress, velocity, and pressure are, respectively, Pt discontinuous, Pz continuous, PI continuous. We use the method of characteristics for the convection of the extra stress tensor. We suppose that the continuous problem admits a sufficiently smooth and sufficiently small solution. We show by a fixed point method that the approximate problem has a solution and an error bound is given.
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