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International audience; In this article, we consider the time dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equation coupled with the Darcy equation. We propose a numerical scheme based on finite element methods for the discretization in space and the implicit Euler method for the discretization in time. We establish optimal a posteriori error estimates with two types of computable error indicators, the first one linked to the time discretization and the second one to the space discretization. Finally, numerical investigations are performed and presented.

International audience; In this paper, we study in two and three space dimensions, the a posteriori error estimates for the Large Eddy Simulation applied to the Navier-Stokes system. We begin by introducing the Navier-Stokes and the corresponding Large Eddy Simulation (LES) equations. Then we introduce the corresponding discrete problem based on the finite element method. We establish an a posteriori error estimation with three types of error indicators related to the filter of the LES method, to the discretization and to the linearization. Finally, numerical investigations are shown and discussed.

International audience; Classical finite volume schemes for the Euler system are not accurate at low Mach number and some fixes have to be used and were developed in a vast literature over the last two decades. The question we are interested in in this article is: What about if the porosity is no longer uniform? We first show that this problem may be understood on the linear wave equation taking into account porosity. We explain the influence of the cell geometry on the accuracy property at low Mach number. In the triangular case, the stationary space of the Godunov scheme approaches well enough the continuous space of constant pressure and divergence-free velocity, while this is not the case in the Cartesian case. On Cartesian meshes, a fix is proposed and accuracy at low Mach number is proved to be recovered. Based on the linear study, a numerical scheme and a low Mach fix for the non-linear system, with a non-conservative source term due to the porosity variations, is proposed and tested.

International audience; We propose and analyse a parallel method, both in the time and space directions, that couples the Parareal algorithm with the Optimized Schwarz waveform relaxation (OSWR) method, with only few OSWR iterations in the fine propagator and with a simple coarse propagator deduced from the Backward Euler method. The analysis of this coupled method is presented for a one-dimensional advection-reaction-diffusion equation. We prove a general convergence result for this method via energy estimates. Numerical results for two-dimensional advection-diffusion problems and for a diffusion equation with strong heterogeneities are presented, to illustrate the performance of the coupled Parareal-OSWR algorithm.

International audience; In this article, we study the time dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equation coupled with the Darcy equation. We propose and analyze two numerical schemes based on finite element methods for the discretization in space and the implicit Euler method for the discretization in time. An optimal a priori error estimate is then derived for each numerical scheme. Finally, we present some numerical experiments that confirm the theoretical accuracy of the discretization.

In the aim to find the simplest and most efficient shape of a noise absorbing wall to dissipate the acoustical energy of a sound wave, we consider a frequency model described by the Helmholtz equation with a damping on the boundary. The well-posedness of the model is shown in a class of domains with d-set boundaries (N -- 1 $\le$ d < N). We introduce a class of admissible Lipschitz boundaries, in which an optimal shape of the wall exists in the following sense: We prove the existence of a Radon measure on this shape, greater than or equal to the usual Lebesgue measure, for which the corresponding solution of the Helmholtz problem realizes the infimum of the acoustic energy defined with the Lebesgue measure on the boundary. If this Radon measure coincides with the Lebesgue measure, the corresponding solution realizes the minimum of the energy. For a fixed porous material, considered as an acoustic absorbent, we derive the damping parameters of its boundary from the corresponding time-dependent problem described by the damped wave equation (damping in volume)., SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, In press

The study deals with collocated Godunov type finite volume schemes applied to the two-dimensional linear wave equation with Coriolis source term. The purpose is to explain the wrong behaviour of the classic scheme and to modify it in order to avoid accuracy issues around the geostrophic equilibrium and in geostrophic adjustment processes. To do so, a Hodge-like decomposition is introduced. Then three different well-balanced strategies are introduced. Some properties of the associated modified equations are proven and then extended to the semi-discrete case. Stability of fully discrete schemes under a suitable CFL condition is established thanks to a Von Neumann analysis. Some numerical results reinforce the purpose and exhibit the concrete improvements achieved by the application of these new techniques in both linear and nonlinear cases.

FVCA 2017 : International Conference on Finite Volumes for Complex Applications; This benchmark proposes test-cases to assess innovative finite volume type methods developped to solve the equations of incompressible fluid mechanics. Emphasis is set on the ability to handle very general meshes, on accuracy, robustness and computational complexity. Two-dimensional as well as three-dimensional tests with known analytical solutions are proposed for the steady Stokes and both steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations, as well as classical lid-driven cavity tests.

We present an application of the discrete duality finite volume method to the numerical approximation of the vorticity-velocity-pressure formulation of the two-dimensional Stokes equations, associated to various nonstandard boundary conditions. The finite volume method is based on the use of discrete differential operators obeying some discrete duality principles. The scheme may be seen as an extension of the classical Marker and Cell scheme to almost arbitrary meshes, thanks to an appropriate choice of degrees of freedom. The efficiency of the scheme is illustrated by numerical examples over unstructured triangular and locally refined nonconforming meshes, which confirm the theoretical convergence analysis led in the article. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 1–30, 2015

International audience; This article is composed of three self-consistent chapters that can be read independently of each other. In Chapter 1, we define and we analyze the low Mach number problem through a linear analysis of a perturbed linear wave equation. Then, we show how to modify Godunov type schemes applied to the linear wave equation to make this scheme accurate at any Mach number. This allows to define an all Mach correction and to propose a linear all Mach Godunov scheme for the linear wave equation. In Chapter 2, we apply the all Mach correction proposed in Chapter 1 to the case of the non-linear barotropic Euler system when the Godunov type scheme is a Roe scheme. A linear stability result is proposed and a formal asymptotic analysis justifies the construction in this non-linear case by showing how this construction is related with the linear analysis of Chapter 1. At last, we apply in Chapter 3 the all Mach correction proposed in Chapter 1 in the case of the full Euler compressible system. Numerous numerical results proposed in Chapters 1, 2 and 3 justify the theoretical results and show that the obtained all Mach Godunov type schemes are both accurate and stable for all Mach numbers. We also underline that the proposed approach can be applied to other schemes and allows to justify other existing all Mach schemes.

By studying the structure of the discrete kernel of the linear acoustic operator discretized with a Godunov scheme, we clearly explain why the behaviour of the Godunov scheme applied to the linear wave equation deeply depends on the space dimension and, especially, on the type of mesh. This approach allows us to explain why, in the periodic case, the Godunov scheme applied to the resolution of the compressible Euler or Navier-Stokes system is accurate at low Mach number when the mesh is triangular or tetrahedral and is not accurate when the mesh is a 2D (or 3D) cartesian mesh. This approach confirms also the fact that a Godunov scheme remains accurate when it is modified by simply centering the discretization of the pressure gradient.

International audience; An efficient and fully computable a posteriori error bound is derived for the discrete duality finite volume discretization of the Laplace equation on very general twodimensional meshes. The main ingredients are the equivalence of this method with a finite element like scheme and tools from the finite element framework. Numerical tests are performed with a stiff solution on highly nonconforming locally refined meshes and with a singular solution on triangular meshes.

A new finite volume method is presented for discretizing the two-dimensional Maxwell equations. This method may be seen as an extension of the covolume type methods to arbitrary, possibly non-conforming or even non-convex, n-sided polygonal meshes, thanks to an appropriate choice of degrees of freedom. An equivalent formulation of the scheme is given in terms of discrete differential operators obeying discrete duality principles. The main properties of the scheme are its energy conservation, its stability under a CFL-like condition, and the fact that it preserves Gauss' law and divergence free magnetic fields. Second-order convergence is demonstrated numerically on non-conforming and distorted meshes.

International audience; We derive an a posteriori error estimation for the discrete duality finite volume (DDFV) discretization of the stationary Stokes equations on very general twodimensional meshes, when a penalty term is added in the incompressibility equation to stabilize the variational formulation. Two different estimators are provided: one for the error on the velocity and one for the error on the pressure. They both include a contribution related to the error due to the stabilization of the scheme, and a contribution due to the discretization itself. The estimators are globally upper as well as locally lower bounds for the errors of the DDFV discretization. They are fully computable as soon as a lower bound for the inf-sup constant is available. Numerical experiments illustrate the theoretical results and we especially consider the influence of the penalty parameter on the error for a fixed mesh and also of the mesh size for a fixed value of the penalty parameter. A global error reducing strategy that mixes the decrease of the penalty parameter and adaptive mesh refinement is described.

We present a finite volume method based on the integration of the Laplace equation on both the cells of a primal almost arbitrary two-dimensional mesh and those of a dual mesh obtained by joining the centers of the cells of the primal mesh. The key ingredient is the definition of discrete gradient and divergence operators verifying a discrete Green formula. This method generalizes an existing finite volume method that requires "Voronoi-type" meshes. We show the equivalence of this finite volume method with a non-conforming finite element method with basis functions being P 1 on the cells, generally called "diamond-cells", of a third mesh. Under geometrical conditions on these diamond- cells, we prove a first-order convergence both in the H 1 norm and in the L 2 norm. Superconvergence results are obtained on certain types of homothetically refined grids. Finally, numerical experiments confirm these results and also show second-order convergence in the L 2 norm on general grids. They also indicate that this method performs particularly well for the approximation of the gradient of the solution, and may be used on degenerating triangular grids. An example of application on non- conforming locally refined grids is given.

We present an extension of the Optimized Schwarz Waveform Relaxation method with Robin transmission conditions to finite volume schemes of DDFV type (Discrete Duality Finite Volumes) for solving heterogeneous time-dependent advection-diffusion problems. We propose a new strategy which is well adapted to domain decomposition for coupling upwind discretization of the convection with diffusion in the context of a finite volume method. The method is proven to be well posed and we prove the convergence of the iterative algorithm. Then we present numerical results to illustrate the method.

A self-consistent nonlinear model of an isotope separation process based on selective ion cyclotron resonance heating in a magnetized plasma is presented, and its numerical resolution is described. The response of the electrons to the electromagnetic field is modeled by a cold and linear conductivity tensor, while a particle method is used to solve nonlinear Vlasov equations for the ions. The resolution of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations is achieved by a finite-element method. Both steps are coupled by an iterative procedure, which shows fast convergence. Results are presented for the case of a solenoidal launching antenna.

Usually, non-stationary numerical calculations in electromagnetics are based on the hyperbolic evolution equations for the electric and magnetic fields and leave Gauss' law out of consideration because the latter is a consequence of the former and of the charge conservation equation in the continuous case. However, in the simulation of the self-consistent movement of charged particles in electromagnetic fields, it is a well-known fact that the approximation of the particle motion introduces numerical errors and that, consequently, the charge conservation equation is not satisfied on the dicrete level. Then, in order to avoid the increase of errors in Gauss' law, a divergence cleaning step which solves a Poisson equation for a correction potential is often added. In the present paper, a new method for incorporating Gauss' law into non-stationary electromagnetic simulation codes is developed, starting from a constrained formulation of the Maxwell equations. The resulting system is hyperbolic, and the divergence errors propagate with the speed of light to the boundary of the computational domain. Furthermore, the basic ideas of the numerical approximation are introduced and the extended hyperbolic system is treated numerically within the framework of high-resolution finite-volume schemes. Simulation results obtained with this new technique for pure electromagnetic wave propagation and for an electromagnetic particle-in-cell computation are presented and compared with other methods.

International audience; Cell-centered and vertex-centered finite volume schemes for the Laplace equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions are considered on a triangular mesh and on the Voronoi diagram associated to its vertices. A broken $P^1$ function is constructed from the solutions of both schemes. When the domain is two-dimensional polygonal convex, it is shown that this reconstruction converges with second-order accuracy towards the exact solution in the~$L^2$ norm, under the sufficient condition that the right-hand side of the Laplace equation belongs to~$H^1(\Omega)$.

International audience; We define discrete differential operators such as grad, div and curl, on general two-dimensional non-orthogonal meshes. These discrete operators verify discrete analogues of usual continuous theorems: discrete Green formulae, discrete Hodge decomposition of vector fields, vector curls have a vanishing divergence and gradients have a vanishing curl. We apply these ideas to discretize div-curl systems. We give error estimates based on the reformulation of these systems into equivalent equations for the potentials. Numerical results illustrate the use of the method on several types of meshes, among which degenerating triangular meshes and non-conforming locally refined meshes.

We present a high-resolution finite-volume Godunov-type Maxwell solver for three-dimensional unstructured meshes, based on the purely hyperbolic Maxwell (PHM) system, which is established by introducing two additional degrees of freedom into the evolutionary part of the Maxwell equations and coupling them with the elliptical constraints given by Gaus’ law and the ∇ · B = 0 statement. This model allows for possible errors in the charge conservation equation as may occur in particle-in-cell simulations, and yields approximative solutions of the conventional Maxwell equations. Numerical results demonstrate the relevance of the correction approach when the charge conservation equation is violated.

International audience; We present an a posteriori error estimate for the linear elasticity problem. The estimate is based on an equilibrated reconstruction of the Cauchy stress tensor, which is obtained from mixed finite element solutions of local Neumann problems. We propose two different reconstructions, one using Arnold–Winther mixed finite element spaces providing a symmetric stress tensor and one using Arnold–Falk– Winther mixed finite element spaces with a weak symmetry constraint. The performance of the estimate is illustrated on a numerical test with analytical solution.

International audience; A fractional step method that provides approximate solutions of a three-phase flow model is presented herein. The three-fluid model enables to handle smooth or discontinuous unsteady solutions. The numerical method is grounded on the use of the entropy inequality that governs smooth solutions of the set of PDEs. The evolution step relies on an explicit scheme, while implicit schemes are embedded in the relaxation step. The main properties of the scheme are given. Numerical approximations of two basic Riemann problems are eventually presented.

International audience; The so-called mixed flows in pipes include two-phase stratified regimes as well as single-phase pressurized regimes with transitions. It is proposed to handle those configurations numerically with the compressible two-layer model developed in [7]. Thus, a fractional step method is proposed to deal explicitly with the slow propagation phenomena and implicitly with the fast ones. It results in a large time-step scheme accurate in both regimes. Numerical experiments are performed including convergence results and academical test cases.

We consider here the two-dimensional version of the Hybrid High-Order (HHO) method for the steady incompressible Navier–Stokes equations originally introduced in [Di Pietro, Krell, A Hybrid High-Order method for the steady incompressible Navier–Stokes problem, preprint arXiv:1607.08159 math.NA]. This method displays several advantageous features: it is inf-sup stable on general meshes including polyhedral elements and nonmatching interfaces, it supports arbitrary approximation order, and has a reduced computational cost thanks to the possibility of statically condensing a subset of both velocity and pressure degrees of freedom (DOFs) at each nonlinear iteration.