A discontinuous galerkin method with enrichment for boundary layers

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Abstract
A discontinuous Galerkin method with enrichment and Lagrange multipliers (DGLM) is proposed for the solution of problems with boundary layers. Specifically, this includes the steady and unsteady advection-diffusion equation with a spatially-varying advection field and the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The standard finite element method (FEM) is susceptible to the issue of spatial instability at practical mesh resolutions, typically observed as non-physical oscillations in the numerical solution to these problems. This is especially the case in the advection-dominated regime in which the boundary layers have steep gradients. Like the discontinuous enrichment method (DEM), the DGLM overcomes this issue through the use of novel shape functions designed to resolve boundary layers. These are chosen here element-wise as polynomials that are additively enriched with approximate free-space solutions of the governing differential equation. The enrichment functions are inspired by the boundary layer theory and are derived using an asymptotic analysis for different types of boundary layers. Inter-element solution continuity is weakly enforced using polynomial Lagrange multipliers. The method is shown to be stable in the inf-sup sense. Numerical results reveal that the DGLM has a lower error constant than the FEM and outperforms it for both the advection-diffusion equation in the high Peclet number regime and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the laminar flow regime.

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Type of resource text
Form electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource
Extent 1 online resource.
Place California
Place [Stanford, California]
Publisher [Stanford University]
Copyright date 2019; ©2019
Publication date 2019; 2019
Issuance monographic
Language English

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Author Borker, Raunak Deepak
Degree supervisor Farhat, Charbel
Thesis advisor Farhat, Charbel
Thesis advisor Alonso, Juan José, 1968-
Thesis advisor Lele, Sanjiva K. (Sanjiva Keshava), 1958-
Degree committee member Alonso, Juan José, 1968-
Degree committee member Lele, Sanjiva K. (Sanjiva Keshava), 1958-
Associated with Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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Statement of responsibility Raunak Borker.
Note Submitted to the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Thesis Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019.
Location electronic resource

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© 2019 by Raunak Deepak Borker
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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