Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark#
This section was contributed by Cedric Thieulot.
This benchmark is taken from Donea and Huerta’s book [Donea and Huerta, 2003]. The domain is a unit square and the viscosity and density are set to 1. The components of the gravity vector \(\mathbf g\) are prescribed as
The exact solution can then be chosen as follows, if one prescribes Dirichlet boundary values for the velocity using the same formula:
Note that the pressure satisfies \(\int_{\Omega} p \; \text{d}x = 0\). The gravity, pressure and velocity fields are shown in Fig. 188 to Fig. 190.
The convergence of the numerical error of this benchmark has been analyzed by changing the mesh refinement level in the input file, and results show that the velocity shows cubic error convergence, while the pressure shows quadratic convergence in the \(L_2\) norm, as expected when using the \(Q_2\times Q_1\) element.