VMS spectral solution of two-dimensional advection-diffusion problems with anisotropic velocity

TL;DR

This paper develops a spectral Variational Multi-scale (VMS) method for two-dimensional advection-diffusion problems with anisotropic velocity, demonstrating improved accuracy for high Péclet numbers through precomputed stabilization coefficients.

Contribution

The paper introduces a spectral VMS approach with precomputed stabilization coefficients tailored for anisotropic velocities in 2D advection-diffusion problems, enhancing computational efficiency and accuracy.

Findings

Improved accuracy for large Péclet numbers with variable velocity.

Precomputed stabilization coefficients reduce online computation time.

Spectral VMS method outperforms traditional stabilization techniques.

Abstract

In this article, we extend the Variational Multi-scale method with spectral approximation of the sub-scales to two-dimensional advection-diffusion problems. The spectral VMS method is cast for low-order elements as a standard VMS method with specific stabilized coefficients associated to a component of the advection velocity. We compute the stabilized coefficients for grids of isosceles right triangles and right quadrilaterals, based upon the explicit computation of the eigen-pairs of the advection-diffusion operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions. To reduce the computing time, the stabilized coefficients are computed at the nodes of a grid in an off-line step, and then interpolated by a fast procedure in the on-line computation. Finally, we present some numerical tests, first with constant velocity and after that with anisotropic variable velocity, in order to compare our results with those provided by other stabilization coefficients. We observe a relevant accuracy gain for moderately large grid P\'eclet numbers for variable advection velocity.