Adaptivity and a Posteriori Error Control for Bifurcation Problems III: Incompressible Fluid Flow in Open Systems with O(2) Symmetry

Authors:
K. Andrew Cliffe;Edward J. Hall;Paul Houston;Eric T. Phipps;Andrew G. Salinger
Affiliations:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD;School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD;School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD;Computer Science Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA;Computer Science Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA
Venue:
Journal of Scientific Computing
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this article we consider the a posteriori error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement of discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximations of the bifurcation problem associated with the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Particular attention is given to the reliable error estimation of the critical Reynolds number at which a steady pitchfork bifurcation occurs when the underlying physical system possesses rotational and reflectional or O(2) symmetry. Here, computable a posteriori error bounds are derived based on employing the generalization of the standard Dual Weighted Residual approach, originally developed for the estimation of target functionals of the solution, to bifurcation problems. Numerical experiments highlighting the practical performance of the proposed a posteriori error indicator on adaptively refined computational meshes are presented. Here, particular attention is devoted to the problem of flow through a cylindrical pipe with a sudden expansion, which represents a notoriously difficult computational problem.