A linear, stabilized, non-spatial iterative, partitioned time stepping method for the nonlinear Navier–Stokes/Navier–Stokes interaction model

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, a linear, stabilized, non-spatial iterative, partitioned time stepping method is developed and studied for the nonlinear Navier–Stokes/Navier–Stokes interaction. A backward Euler scheme is utilized for the temporal discretization while a linear Oseen scheme for the trilinear term is used to affect the spatial discretization approximated by the equal order elements. Therefore, we only solve a linear Stokes problem without spatial iterative per time step for each individual domain. Then, the method exploits properties of the Navier–Stokes/Navier–Stokes system to establish the stability and convergence by rigorous analysis. Finally, numerical experiments are presented to show the performance of the proposed method.

Keywords

• Partitioned time stepping methods
• Fluid–fluid interface
• Navier–Stokes equations
• Convergence
• Numerical experiments