Mathematics – Analysis of PDEs
Scientific paper
2007-06-27
Mathematics
Analysis of PDEs
18 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We derive estimates of the Babu\u{s}ka-Brezzi inf-sup constant $\beta$ for two-dimensional incompressible flow in a periodic channel with one flat boundary and the other given by a periodic, Lipschitz continuous function $h$. If $h$ is a constant function (so the domain is rectangular), we show that periodicity in one direction but not the other leads to an interesting connection between $\beta$ and the unitary operator mapping the Fourier sine coefficients of a function to its Fourier cosine coefficients. We exploit this connection to determine the dependence of $\beta$ on the aspect ratio of the rectangle. We then show how to transfer this result to the case that $h$ is $C^{1,1}$ or even $C^{0,1}$ by a change of variables. We avoid non-constructive theorems of functional analysis in order to explicitly exhibit the dependence of $\beta$ on features of the geometry such as the aspect ratio, the maximum slope, and the minimum gap thickness (if $h$ passes near the substrate). We give an example to show that our estimates are optimal in their dependence on the minimum gap thickness in the $C^{1,1}$ case, and nearly optimal in the Lipschitz case.
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