Bryan Gómez-Vargas

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NAMay 6, 2019
Incorporating variable viscosity in vorticity-based formulations for Brinkman equations

Verónica Anaya, Bryan Gómez-Vargas, David Mora et al.

In this brief note, we introduce a non-symmetric mixed finite element formulation for Brinkman equations written in terms of velocity, vorticity and pressure with non-constant viscosity. The analysis is performed by the classical Babuška-Brezzi theory, and we state that any inf-sup stable finite element pair for Stokes approximating velocity and pressure can be coupled with a generic discrete space of arbitrary order for the vorticity. We establish optimal a priori error estimates which are further confirmed through computational examples