Longer time accuracy for incompressible Navier-Stokes simulations with the EMAC formulation

02/04/2020
by   Maxim A. Olshanskii, et al.
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In this paper, we consider the recently introduced EMAC formulation for the incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations, which is the only known NS formulation that conserves energy, momentum and angular momentum when the divergence constraint is only weakly enforced. Since its introduction, the EMAC formulation has been successfully used for a wide variety of fluid dynamics problems. We prove that discretizations using the EMAC formulation are potentially better than those built on the commonly used skew-symmetric formulation, by deriving a better longer time error estimate for EMAC: while the classical results for schemes using the skew-symmetric formulation have Gronwall constants dependent on (C· Re· T) with Re the Reynolds number, it turns out that the EMAC error estimate is free from this explicit exponential dependence on the Reynolds number. Additionally, it is demonstrated how EMAC admits smaller lower bounds on its velocity error, since incorrect treatment of linear momentum, angular momentum and energy induces lower bounds for L^2 velocity error, and EMAC treats these quantities more accurately. Results of numerical tests for channel flow past a cylinder and 2D Kelvin-Helmholtz instability are also given, both of which show that the advantages of EMAC over the skew-symmetric formulation increase as the Reynolds number gets larger and for longer simulation times.

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