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Title: An energy, momentum, and angular momentum conserving scheme for a regularization model of incompressible flow
Abstract We introduce a new regularization model for incompressible fluid flow, which is a regularization of the EMAC (energy, momentum, and angular momentum conserving) formulation of the Navier–Stokes equations (NSE) that we call EMAC-Reg. The EMAC formulation has proved to be a useful formulation because it conserves energy, momentum, and angular momentum even when the divergence constraint is only weakly enforced. However, it is still a NSE formulation and so cannot resolve higher Reynolds number flows without very fine meshes. By carefully introducing regularization into the EMAC formulation, we create a model more suitable for coarser mesh computations but that still conserves the same quantities as EMAC, i.e., energy, momentum, and angular momentum. We show that EMAC-Reg, when semi-discretized with a finite element spatial discretization is well-posed and optimally accurate. Numerical results are provided that show EMAC-Reg is a robust coarse mesh model.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2011490
NSF-PAR ID:
10327787
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Numerical Mathematics
Volume:
30
Issue:
1
ISSN:
1570-2820
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 22
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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