Title
Unconditional Convergence and Optimal Error Estimates of a Galerkin-Mixed FEM for Incompressible Miscible Flow in Porous Media.
Abstract
In this paper, we study the unconditional convergence and error estimates of a Galerkin-mixed FEM with the linearized semi-implicit Euler scheme for the equations of incompressible miscible flow in porous media. We prove that the optimal L-2 error estimates hold without any time-step (convergence) conditions, while all previous works require certain time-step restrictions. Our theoretical results provide a new understanding on commonly used linearized schemes. The proof is based on a splitting of the error into two parts: the error from the time discretization of the PDEs and the error from the finite element discretization of corresponding time-discrete PDEs. The approach used in this paper can be applied to more general nonlinear parabolic systems and many other linearized (semi)-implicit time discretizations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1137/120871821
SIAM JOURNAL ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
unconditional stability,optimal error estimate,Galerkin-mixed FEM,incompressible miscible flow
Convergence (routing),Compressibility,Discretization,Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Mathematical analysis,Galerkin method,Finite element method,Unconditional convergence,Mathematics,Parabola
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
51
4
0036-1429
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
1.67
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Buyang Li117021.10
Weiwei Sun215415.12