Analysis of the pressure projection stabilization method for the Darcy and coupled Darcy-Stokes flows
In this paper, we systematically analyze the pressure projection stabilization method for the Darcy and coupled Darcy-Stokes flow problems in multiple dimensions. Stability results for this stabilization method are established. For the Darcy flow, optimal error estimates in the divergence norm for velocity and suboptimal error estimates in the -norm for pressure are obtained, and a superconvergence result for the pressure is derived; a local postprocessing scheme is constructed to generate optimal error estimates in the L (2)-norm for pressure. For the coupled Darcy-Stokes flow, error estimates of optimal order are obtained in terms of the energy norm of velocity and pressure. Numerical results are presented to check the theory developed.
pressure projection stabilization stability coupled darcy-stokes flow darcy flow optimal error estimates superconvergence postprocessing scheme mixed methods finite elements nonconforming elements second-order equations