CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS ON GIBOU-MIN METHOD FOR THE SCALAR FIELD IN HODGE-HELMHOLTZ DECOMPOSITION

Abstract

The Hodge-Helmholtz decomposition splits a vector field into the unique sum of a divergence-free vector field (solenoidal part) and a gradient field (irrotational part). In a bounded domain, a boundary condition needs to be supplied to the decomposition. The decomposition with the non-penetration boundary condition is equivalent to solving the Poisson equation with the Neumann boundary condition. The Gibou-Min method is an application of the Poisson solver by Purvis and Burkhalter to the decomposition. Using the L 2 -orthogonality between the error vector and the consistency, the convergence for approximating the divergence-free vector field was recently proved to be O(h 1.5 ) with step size h: In this work, we analyze the convergence of the irrotattional in the decomposition. To the end, we introduce a discrete version of the Poincare inequality, which leads to a proof of the O(h) convergence for the scalar variable of the gradient field in a domain with general intersection property.