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Vorticity‐velocity formulations of the Stokes problem in 3D
Author(s) -
Ern A.,
Guermond J.L.,
Quartapelle L.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
mathematical methods in the applied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-1476
pISSN - 0170-4214
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1476(199904)22:6<531::aid-mma51>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - vorticity , mathematics , lipschitz continuity , domain (mathematical analysis) , mathematical analysis , boundary (topology) , stokes flow , vorticity equation , flow (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , velocity vector , weak solution , vortex , geometry , classical mechanics , physics , mechanics , computer science , operating system
This work studies the three‐dimensional Stokes problem expressed in terms of vorticity and velocity variables. We make general assumptions on the regularity and the topological structure of the flow domain: the boundary is Lipschitz and possibly non‐connected and the flow domain may be multiply connected. Upon introducing a new variational space for the vorticity, five weak formulations of the Stokes problem are obtained. All the formulations are shown to lead to well‐posed problems and to be equivalent to the primitive variable formulation. The various formulations are discussed by interpreting the test functions for the vorticity (resp. velocity) equation as vector potentials for the velocity (resp. vorticity). Of the five sets of boundary conditions derived in the paper, three are already known, but only for domains with a trivial topological structure, while the remaining two are new. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.