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A spectral Garlekin method for hydrodynamic stability problems
(1998)SAM Research ReportA spectral Galerkin method for calculating the eigenvalues of the Orr-Sommerfeld equation is presented. The matrices of the resulting generalized eigenvalue problem are sparse. A convergence analysis of the method is presented which indicates that a) no spurious eigenvalues occur and b) reliable results can only be expected under the assumption of {\em scale resolution}, i.e., that $\re/p^2$ is small; here $\re$ is the Reynolds number and ...Report -
The hp Streamline Diffusion Finite Element Method for Convection Dominated Problems in one Space Dimension
(1998)SAM Research ReportWe analyze the hp Streamline Diffusion Finite Element Method (SDFEM) and the standard Galerkin FEM for one dimensional stationary convection-diffusion problems. Under the assumption of analyticity of the input data, a mesh is exhibited on which approximation with continuous piecewise polynomials of degree p allows for resolution of the boundary layer. On such meshes, both the SDFEM and the Galerkin FEM lead to robust exponential convergence ...Report