A priori and a posteriori estimates of the stabilized finite element methods for the incompressible flow with slip boundary conditions arising in arteriosclerosis

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we develop the lower order stabilized finite element methods for the incompressible flow with the slip boundary conditions of friction type whose weak solution satisfies a variational inequality. The H1 $H^{1}$-norm for the velocity and the L2 $L^{2}$-norm for the pressure decrease with optimal convergence order. The reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimates are also derived. Finally, numerical experiments are presented to validate the theoretical results.

Keywords

• Stokes equations
• Slip boundary condition
• Variational inequality
• Finite element methods
• A priori error estimates
• A posteriori error estimates