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ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 52, Number 1, January–February 2018
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| Page(s) | 181 - 206 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2018006 | |
| Published online | 04 May 2018 | |
A priori estimates and optimal finite element approximation of the MHD flow in smooth domains
1
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University,
Xi’an
710049, P.R. China
2
Department of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
* Corresponding author: e-mail: zou@math.cuhk.edu.hk
Received:
11
April
2017
Accepted:
11
January
2018
We study a finite element approximation of the initial-boundary value problem of the 3D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system under smooth domains and data. We first establish several important regularities and a priori estimates for the velocity, pressure and magnetic field (u, p, B) of the MHD system under the assumption that ∇u ∈ L4(0,T;L2(Ω)3 × 3) and ∇ × B ∈ L4(0,T;L2(Ω)3). Then we formulate a finite element approximation of the MHD flow. Finally, we derive the optimal error estimates of the discrete velocity and magnetic field in energy-norm and the discrete pressure in L2-norm, and the optimal error estimates of the discrete velocity and magnetic field in L2-norm by means of a novel negative-norm technique, without the help of the standard duality argument for the Navier-Stokes equations.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65N30 / 35Q35 / 65N12 / 76M10 / 76W05
Key words: MHD flow / finite element approximations / a priori estimates / error estimates / negative-norm technique
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