Numerical analysis of the Oseen-type Peterlin viscoelastic model by the stabilized Lagrange-Galerkin method, Part II: A linear scheme

TL;DR

This paper presents an error analysis and confirms optimal convergence orders for a linear, stabilized Lagrange-Galerkin scheme applied to a diffusive Oseen-type Peterlin viscoelastic model, emphasizing efficiency in 3D computations.

Contribution

It introduces a semi-implicit linear scheme with proven optimal error estimates for the viscoelastic model, enhancing computational efficiency and accuracy.

Findings

Optimal convergence orders for velocity, pressure, and conformation tensor

Numerical experiments confirm theoretical error estimates

Efficient computation in three dimensions

Abstract

This is the second part of our error analysis of the stabilized Lagrange-Galerkin scheme applied to the Oseen-type Peterlin viscoelastic model. Our scheme is a combination of the method of characteristics and Brezzi-Pitk\"aranta's stabilization method for the conforming linear elements, which leads to an efficient computation with a small number of degrees of freedom especially in three space dimensions. In this paper, Part II, we apply a semi-implicit time discretization which yields the linear scheme. We concentrate on the diffusive viscoelastic model, i.e. in the constitutive equation for time evolution of the conformation tensor a diffusive effect is included. Under mild stability conditions we obtain error estimates with the optimal convergence order for the velocity, pressure and conformation tensor in two and three space dimensions. The theoretical convergence orders are confirmed by numerical experiments.