dc.contributor.author Bazhlekova, Emilia dc.contributor.author Jin, Bangti dc.contributor.author Lazarov, Raytcho dc.contributor.author Zhou, Zhi dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-25T12:41:09Z dc.date.available 2016-02-25T12:41:09Z dc.date.issued 2014-11-26 dc.identifier.citation Bazhlekova E, Jin B, Lazarov R, Zhou Z (2014) An analysis of the Rayleigh–Stokes problem for a generalized second-grade fluid. Numerische Mathematik 131: 1–31. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00211-014-0685-2. dc.identifier.issn 0029-599X dc.identifier.issn 0945-3245 dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s00211-014-0685-2 dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597510 dc.description.abstract © 2014, The Author(s). We study the Rayleigh–Stokes problem for a generalized second-grade fluid which involves a Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative in time, and present an analysis of the problem in the continuous, space semidiscrete and fully discrete formulations. We establish the Sobolev regularity of the homogeneous problem for both smooth and nonsmooth initial data v, including v∈$^{L2}$(Ω). A space semidiscrete Galerkin scheme using continuous piecewise linear finite elements is developed, and optimal with respect to initial data regularity error estimates for the finite element approximations are derived. Further, two fully discrete schemes based on the backward Euler method and second-order backward difference method and the related convolution quadrature are developed, and optimal error estimates are derived for the fully discrete approximations for both smooth and nonsmooth initial data. Numerical results for one- and two-dimensional examples with smooth and nonsmooth initial data are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the method, and to verify the convergence theory. dc.description.sponsorship The authors are grateful to Prof. Christian Lubich for his helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper, which led to a significant improvement of the presentation in Sect. 4, and an anonymous referee for many constructive comments. The research of B. Jin has been supported by NSF Grant DMS-1319052, and R. Lazarov was supported in parts by NSF Grant DMS-1016525 and also by Award No. KUS-C1-016-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). dc.publisher Springer Nature dc.subject 65M15 dc.subject 65M60 dc.title An analysis of the Rayleigh–Stokes problem for a generalized second-grade fluid dc.type Article dc.identifier.journal Numerische Mathematik dc.contributor.institution Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria dc.contributor.institution UCL, London, United Kingdom dc.contributor.institution Texas A and M University, College Station, United States kaust.grant.number KUS-C1-016-04 dc.date.published-online 2014-11-26 dc.date.published-print 2015-09
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