Fixed point strategies for mixed variational formulations of the stationary Boussinesq problem

Abstract

In this paper, we report on the main results concerning the solvability analysis of two new mixed variational formulations for the stationary Boussinesq problem. More precisely, we introduce mixed-primal and fully-mixed approaches, both of them suitably augmented with Galerkin-type equations, and show that the resulting schemes can be rewritten, equivalently, as fixed-point operator equations. Then, classical arguments from linear and nonlinear functional analysis are employed to conclude that they are well-posed.