A mixed variational formulation for the wellposedness and numerical approximation of a PDE model arising in a 3-D fluid-structure interaction

George Avalos; Thomas J. Clark

doi:10.3934/eect.2014.3.557

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2014, Volume 3, Issue 4: 557-578. Doi: 10.3934/eect.2014.3.557

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A mixed variational formulation for the wellposedness and numerical approximation of a PDE model arising in a 3-D fluid-structure interaction

George Avalos^1, and
Thomas J. Clark^2,

1.
Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0130
2.
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA 51250

Received: January 31, 2014

Revised: April 30, 2014

Published: November 2014

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We present qualitative and numerical results on a partial differential equation (PDE) system which models a certain fluid-structure dynamics. Wellposedness is established by constructing for it a nonstandard semigroup generator representation; this representation is accomplished by an appropriate elimination of the pressure. This coupled PDE model involves the Stokes system which evolves on a three dimensional domain $\mathcal{O}$ coupled to a fourth order plate equation, possibly with rotational inertia parameter $\rho >0$. This plate PDE evolves on a flat portion $\Omega$ of the boundary of $\mathcal{O}$. The coupling on $\Omega$ is implemented via the Dirichlet trace of the Stokes system fluid variable - and so the no-slip condition is necessarily not in play - and via the Dirichlet boundary trace of the pressure, which essentially acts as a forcing term on $\Omega$. We note that as the Stokes fluid velocity does not vanish on $\Omega$, the pressure variable cannot be eliminated by the classic Leray projector; instead, it is identified as the solution of an elliptic boundary value problem. Eventually, wellposedness of the system is attained through a nonstandard variational (``inf-sup") formulation. Subsequently we show how our constructive proof of wellposedness naturally gives rise to a mixed finite element method for numerically approximating solutions of this fluid-structure dynamics.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q35; Secondary: 65N30, 74F10, 74S05.

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