A Hybrid High-Order method for creeping flows of non-Newtonian fluids

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Advanced Numerical Methods for Scientific Computing
Code:
55/2020
Title:
A Hybrid High-Order method for creeping flows of non-Newtonian fluids
Date:
Friday 7th August 2020
Author(s):
Botti, M.; Castanon Quiroz, D.; Di Pietro, D.A.; Harnist, A.
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Abstract:
In this paper, we design and analyze a Hybrid High-Order discretization method for the steady motion of non-Newtonian, incompressible fluids in the Stokes approximation of small velocities. The proposed method has several appealing features including the support of general meshes and high-order, unconditional inf-sup stability, and orders of convergence that match those obtained for Leray--Lions scalar problems. A complete well-posedness and convergence analysis of the method is carried out under new, general assumptions on the strain rate-shear stress law, which encompass several common examples such as the power-law and Carreau--Yasuda models. Numerical examples complete the exposition.
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ESAIM: Math. Model Numer. Anal. 55.5