Local and parallel finite element algorithms for the time-dependent Oseen equations

Abstract

Based on two-grid discretizations, local and parallel finite element algorithms are proposed and analyzed for the time-dependent Oseen equations. Using conforming finite element pairs for the spatial discretization and backward Euler scheme for the temporal discretization, the basic idea of the fully discrete finite element algorithms is to approximate the generalized Oseen equations using a coarse grid on the entire domain, and then correct the resulted residual using a fine grid on overlapped subdomains by some local and parallel procedures at each time step. By the theoretical tool of local a priori estimate for the fully discrete finite element solution, error bounds of the approximate solutions from the algorithms are estimated. Numerical results are also given to demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithms.