Title: Divergence-free finite elements for incompressible flow problems 

Speaker: Prof. Guido Kanschat, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University

Date/Time: Tuesday June 3rd, 2008, 10:00-11:00am

Location: CSRI/90

Brief Abstract: A new family of mixed finite element methods for the Stokes and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is presented. It is inf-sup stable and consistent, such that arbitrarily high order approximations can be achieved by increasing the polynomial degree. Furthermore, the discrete velocities are pointwise divergence free, therefore allowing to apply a continuous Navier-Stokes result. We will discuss a discontinuous and a continuous branch of this family and address its relation to the MAC scheme.

CSRI POC: Pavel Bochev, 844-1990