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2.6 Stokes equation

Find \(u \in [H^1_D]^2\) and \(p \in L_2\) such that

\[\begin{split}\DeclareMathOperator{\Div}{div} \begin{array}{ccccll} \int \nabla u : \nabla v & + & \int \Div v \, p & = & \int f v & \forall \, v \\ \int \Div u \, q & & & = & 0 & \forall \, q \end{array}\end{split}\]

Define channel geometry and mesh it:

[1]:
from ngsolve import *
import netgen.gui

from netgen.geom2d import SplineGeometry
geo = SplineGeometry()
geo.AddRectangle( (0, 0), (2, 0.41), bcs = ("wall", "outlet", "wall", "inlet"))
geo.AddCircle ( (0.2, 0.2), r=0.05, leftdomain=0, rightdomain=1, bc="cyl")
mesh = Mesh( geo.GenerateMesh(maxh=0.05))
mesh.Curve(3)
Draw (mesh)

Use Taylor Hood finite element pairing: Continuous \(P^2\) elements for velocity, and continuous \(P^1\) for pressure:

[2]:
V = H1(mesh, order=2, dirichlet="wall|inlet|cyl")
Q = H1(mesh, order=1)
X = V*V*Q

Setup bilinear-form for Stokes. We give names for all scalar field components. The divergence is constructed from partial derivatives of the velocity components.

[3]:
ux,uy,p = X.TrialFunction()
vx,vy,q = X.TestFunction()

div_u = grad(ux)[0]+grad(uy)[1]
div_v = grad(vx)[0]+grad(vy)[1]

a = BilinearForm(X)
a += (grad(ux)*grad(vx)+grad(uy)*grad(vy) + div_u*q + div_v*p) * dx
a.Assemble()
[3]:
<ngsolve.comp.BilinearForm at 0x7fa473b98830>

Set inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition only on inlet boundary:

[4]:
gfu = GridFunction(X)
uin = 1.5*4*y*(0.41-y)/(0.41*0.41)
gfu.components[0].Set(uin, definedon=mesh.Boundaries("inlet"))
velocity = CoefficientFunction(gfu.components[0:2])
Draw(velocity, mesh, "vel")
Draw(Norm(velocity), mesh, "|vel|")
SetVisualization(max=2)

Solve equation:

[5]:
res = gfu.vec.CreateVector()
res.data = -a.mat * gfu.vec
inv = a.mat.Inverse(freedofs=X.FreeDofs(), inverse="umfpack")
gfu.vec.data += inv * res
Redraw()

Testing different velocity-pressure pairs

Now we define a Stokes setup function to test different spaces:

[6]:
def SolveStokes(X):
    ux,uy,p = X.TrialFunction()
    vx,vy,q = X.TestFunction()
    div_u = grad(ux)[0]+grad(uy)[1]
    div_v = grad(vx)[0]+grad(vy)[1]
    a = BilinearForm(X)
    a += (grad(ux)*grad(vx)+grad(uy)*grad(vy) + div_u*q + div_v*p)*dx
    a.Assemble()
    gfu = GridFunction(X)
    uin = 1.5*4*y*(0.41-y)/(0.41*0.41)
    gfu.components[0].Set(uin, definedon=mesh.Boundaries("inlet"))
    res = gfu.vec.CreateVector()
    res.data = -a.mat * gfu.vec
    inv = a.mat.Inverse(freedofs=X.FreeDofs(), inverse="umfpack")
    gfu.vec.data += inv * res


    velocity = CoefficientFunction(gfu.components[0:2])
    Draw(velocity, mesh, "vel")
    Draw(Norm(velocity), mesh, "|vel|")
    SetVisualization(max=2)

    return gfu

Higher order Taylor-Hood elements:

[7]:
V = H1(mesh, order=4, dirichlet="wall|inlet|cyl")
Q = H1(mesh, order=3)
X = V*V*Q

gfu = SolveStokes(X)

With discontinuous pressure elements P2-P1 is unstable:

[8]:
V = H1(mesh, order=2, dirichlet="wall|inlet|cyl")
Q = L2(mesh, order=1)
print ("V.ndof =", V.ndof, ", Q.ndof =", Q.ndof)
X = V*V*Q

gfu = SolveStokes(X)
V.ndof = 1660 , Q.ndof = 2328
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NgException                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-5ecc0da3557f> in <module>
      4 X = V*V*Q
      5
----> 6 gfu = SolveStokes(X)

<ipython-input-6-abe06cca85c3> in SolveStokes(X)
     12     res = gfu.vec.CreateVector()
     13     res.data = -a.mat * gfu.vec
---> 14     inv = a.mat.Inverse(freedofs=X.FreeDofs(), inverse="umfpack")
     15     gfu.vec.data += inv * res
     16

NgException: UmfpackInverse: Numeric factorization failed.

\(P^{2,+} \times P^{1,dc}\) elements:

[9]:
V = H1(mesh, order=2, dirichlet="wall|inlet|cyl")
V.SetOrder(TRIG,3)
V.Update()
Q = L2(mesh, order=1)
X = V*V*Q
print ("V.ndof =", V.ndof, ", Q.ndof =", Q.ndof)

gfu = SolveStokes(X)
V.ndof = 2436 , Q.ndof = 2328

the mini element:

[10]:
V = H1(mesh, order=1, dirichlet="wall|inlet|cyl")
V.SetOrder(TRIG,3)
V.Update()
Q = H1(mesh, order=1)
X = V*V*Q

gfu = SolveStokes(X)

VectorH1

A vector-valued \(H^1\)-space: Less to type and more possibilities to explore structure and optimize.

[11]:
V = VectorH1(mesh, order=2, dirichlet="wall|inlet|cyl")
V.SetOrder(TRIG,3)
V.Update()
Q = L2(mesh, order=1)
X = V*Q

u,p = X.TrialFunction()
v,q = X.TestFunction()

a = BilinearForm(X)
a += (InnerProduct(grad(u),grad(v))+div(u)*q+div(v)*p)*dx
a.Assemble()

gfu = GridFunction(X)
uin = CoefficientFunction( (1.5*4*y*(0.41-y)/(0.41*0.41), 0) )
gfu.components[0].Set(uin, definedon=mesh.Boundaries("inlet"))

res = gfu.vec.CreateVector()
res.data = -a.mat * gfu.vec
inv = a.mat.Inverse(freedofs=X.FreeDofs(), inverse="umfpack")
gfu.vec.data += inv * res
Draw(gfu.components[0], mesh, "vel")
Draw(Norm(gfu.components[0]), mesh, "|vel|")
SetVisualization(max=2)

Stokes as a block-system

We can now define separate bilinear-form and matrices for A and B, and combine them to a block-system:

[12]:
V = VectorH1(mesh, order=3, dirichlet="wall|inlet|cyl")
Q = H1(mesh, order=2)

u,v = V.TnT()
p,q = Q.TnT()

a = BilinearForm(V)
a += InnerProduct(Grad(u),Grad(v))*dx

b = BilinearForm(trialspace=V, testspace=Q)
b += div(u)*q*dx

a.Assemble()
b.Assemble()
[12]:
<ngsolve.comp.BilinearForm at 0x7fa44d9acd30>

Needed as preconditioner for the pressure:

[13]:
mp = BilinearForm(Q)
mp += SymbolicBFI(p*q)
mp.Assemble()
[13]:
<ngsolve.comp.BilinearForm at 0x7fa43005a8f0>

Two right hand sides for the two spaces:

[14]:
f = LinearForm(V)
f += CoefficientFunction((0,x-0.5)) * v * dx
f.Assemble()

g = LinearForm(Q)
g.Assemble()
[14]:
<ngsolve.comp.LinearForm at 0x7fa438031830>

Two GridFunctions for velocity and pressure:

[15]:
gfu = GridFunction(V, name="u")
gfp = GridFunction(Q, name="p")
uin = CoefficientFunction( (1.5*4*y*(0.41-y)/(0.41*0.41), 0) )
gfu.Set(uin, definedon=mesh.Boundaries("inlet"))

Combine everything to a block-system. BlockMatrix and BlockVector store references to the original matrices and vectors, no new large matrices are allocated. The same for the transpose matrix b.mat.T. It stores a wrapper for the original matrix, and replaces the call of the Mult function by MultTrans.

[16]:
K = BlockMatrix( [ [a.mat, b.mat.T], [b.mat, None] ] )
C = BlockMatrix( [ [a.mat.Inverse(V.FreeDofs()), None], [None, mp.mat.Inverse()] ] )

rhs = BlockVector ( [f.vec, g.vec] )
sol = BlockVector( [gfu.vec, gfp.vec] )

solvers.MinRes (mat=K, pre=C, rhs=rhs, sol=sol, initialize=False)
it =  0  err =  4.3303317192942
it =  1  err =  2.2633762523698757
it =  2  err =  1.8925960191639148
it =  3  err =  1.5277218947940268
it =  4  err =  1.4772395248664363
it =  5  err =  1.2747356905542553
it =  6  err =  1.2273603798173294
it =  7  err =  1.0796300050294616
it =  8  err =  0.992658123981421
it =  9  err =  0.869736932827043
it =  10  err =  0.8161927796501124
it =  11  err =  0.7258882516190995
it =  12  err =  0.7046075998497126
it =  13  err =  0.6436330323168405
it =  14  err =  0.6266235646546431
it =  15  err =  0.5916838643184528
it =  16  err =  0.5778741397597897
it =  17  err =  0.5491766228915991
it =  18  err =  0.5321136457649722
it =  19  err =  0.5051342181296948
it =  20  err =  0.4938405762907107
it =  21  err =  0.4774851396496251
it =  22  err =  0.45998921865675024
it =  23  err =  0.4364909924210247
it =  24  err =  0.4133842077563132
it =  25  err =  0.3794254522839633
it =  26  err =  0.3467215503835494
it =  27  err =  0.3051475345241573
it =  28  err =  0.2562169088825166
it =  29  err =  0.19300585545534948
it =  30  err =  0.14830426479803363
it =  31  err =  0.09779376900580815
it =  32  err =  0.0826814585923036
it =  33  err =  0.04791284287821625
it =  34  err =  0.046502339939321666
it =  35  err =  0.024520041165454212
it =  36  err =  0.024261611515478267
it =  37  err =  0.013785494322673732
it =  38  err =  0.013780824586083377
it =  39  err =  0.009300226490243837
it =  40  err =  0.009198223134724081
it =  41  err =  0.007033086829367925
it =  42  err =  0.006970187817487754
it =  43  err =  0.004349665449833976
it =  44  err =  0.004333738949680327
it =  45  err =  0.002612496620714864
it =  46  err =  0.002605035500828038
it =  47  err =  0.0016434275731687588
it =  48  err =  0.001615937513106389
it =  49  err =  0.001076902491644344
it =  50  err =  0.0010512527949270293
it =  51  err =  0.0005998100107658705
it =  52  err =  0.0005978337772410308
it =  53  err =  0.000405568600717892
it =  54  err =  0.0004029692487682486
it =  55  err =  0.0002550591204417717
it =  56  err =  0.00025344980505577854
it =  57  err =  0.00013573173521636692
it =  58  err =  0.0001340516664868684
it =  59  err =  5.165040120531247e-05
it =  60  err =  5.1449709923265995e-05
it =  61  err =  2.438987568562447e-05
it =  62  err =  2.4159763994214955e-05
it =  63  err =  1.118200989691313e-05
it =  64  err =  1.1176944732605684e-05
it =  65  err =  4.2182582284469755e-06
it =  66  err =  4.214356940810446e-06
it =  67  err =  1.8431368723440655e-06
it =  68  err =  1.8431165736924133e-06
it =  69  err =  6.56772157641051e-07
it =  70  err =  6.566762996094617e-07
it =  71  err =  2.04285708903673e-07
it =  72  err =  2.0410881192751682e-07
it =  73  err =  9.509102215271125e-08
[16]:
basevector
[17]:
Draw (gfu)
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