On the convergence rate of the Kačanov scheme for shear-thinning fluids.

Carreau model Energy contraction Kačanov’s method Non-Newtonian fluids Power-law model

Journal

Calcolo
ISSN: 1126-5434
Titre abrégé: Calcolo
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 9918284265606676

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 05 01 2021
revised: 13 10 2021
accepted: 14 10 2021
entrez: 13 12 2021
pubmed: 14 12 2021
medline: 14 12 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We explore the convergence rate of the Kačanov iteration scheme for different models of shear-thinning fluids, including Carreau and power-law type explicit quasi-Newtonian constitutive laws. It is shown that the energy difference contracts along the sequence generated by the iteration. In addition, an a posteriori computable contraction factor is proposed, which improves, on finite-dimensional Galerkin spaces, previously derived bounds on the contraction factor in the context of the power-law model. Significantly, this factor is shown to be independent of the choice of the cut-off parameters whose use was proposed in the literature for the Kačanov iteration applied to the power-law model. Our analytical findings are confirmed by a series of numerical experiments.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34898682
doi: 10.1007/s10092-021-00444-3
pii: 444
pmc: PMC8627928
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

4

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2021.

Auteurs

Pascal Heid (P)

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG UK.

Endre Süli (E)

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG UK.

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