Numerical volume preservation of a divergence free fluid under symmetry

  • Authors:
  • R. M. M. Mattheij

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Applied Numerical Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper studies conservative formulations for the evolution of flows in 3-D which satisfy a symmetry condition. It is shown how the Hamiltonian form leads to a proper form of the evolution equation. This is illustrated by a number of examples. It is also shown how this results in conservation of e.g. mass when using simplectic integrators. A special section is devoted to computing displacements by the implicit midpoint rule when the velocities are not available in explicit form but e.g. found from a numerical method like FEM.