An energy- and helicity-conserving enriched galerkin method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

TL;DR

This paper introduces an enriched Galerkin method for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations that conserves energy and helicity without extra variables, ensuring stability and accuracy.

Contribution

The paper presents the first energy- and helicity-conserving enriched Galerkin method for Navier-Stokes equations with proven stability and error estimates.

Findings

Exact conservation of kinetic energy and helicity in numerical schemes

Both nonlinear and linear schemes demonstrate stability and accuracy

Numerical examples confirm the conservation properties and effectiveness

Abstract

We develop an enriched Galerkin (EG) method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations that conserves both kinetic energy and helicity in the inviscid limit without introducing any additional projection variables. The method employs an EG velocity space, which is the first-order continuous Galerkin space enriched with piecewise constants defined on mesh faces, together with piecewise-constant pressure. Two numerical schemes based on the rotational form of the convective term are proposed: a nonlinear scheme and a linear variant. Both schemes exactly preserve the discrete helicity and kinetic energy, and the Picard iteration maintains the conservation properties of the nonlinear scheme. We prove the conservation properties of both the methods, and establish stability and rigorous error estimates for the nonlinear scheme. Numerical examples demonstrate the accuracy and conservation of the proposed linear scheme.