Bazhlekova, E;
Lazarov, R;
Jin, B;
Zhou, Z;
(2015)
An analysis of the Rayleigh–Stokes problem for a generalized second-grade fluid.
Numerische Mathematik
, 131
(1)
pp. 1-31.
10.1007/s00211-014-0685-2.
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Abstract
We study the Rayleigh–Stokes problem for a generalized second-grade fluid which involves a Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative in time, and present an analysis of the problem in the continuous, space semidiscrete and fully discrete formulations. We establish the Sobolev regularity of the homogeneous problem for both smooth and nonsmooth initial data (Formula presented.), including (Formula presented.). A space semidiscrete Galerkin scheme using continuous piecewise linear finite elements is developed, and optimal with respect to initial data regularity error estimates for the finite element approximations are derived. Further, two fully discrete schemes based on the backward Euler method and second-order backward difference method and the related convolution quadrature are developed, and optimal error estimates are derived for the fully discrete approximations for both smooth and nonsmooth initial data. Numerical results for one- and two-dimensional examples with smooth and nonsmooth initial data are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the method, and to verify the convergence theory.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | An analysis of the Rayleigh–Stokes problem for a generalized second-grade fluid |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00211-014-0685-2 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00211-014-0685-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1461687 |
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