A semi-implicit high-order space-time scheme on staggered meshes for the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

A new high order accurate semi-implicit space-time Discontinuous Galerkin method on staggered grids, for the simulation of viscous incompressible flows on two-dimensional domains is presented. The designed scheme is of the Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian type, which is suitable to work on fixed as well as on moving meshes. In our space-time formulation, by expressing the numerical solution in terms of piecewise space-time polynomials, an arbitrary high order of accuracy in time is achieved through a simple and efficient method of Picard iterations. For the dual mesh, the basis functions consist in the union of continuous piecewise polynomials on the two subtriangles within the quadrilaterals: this allows the construction of a quadrature-free scheme, resulting in a very efficient algorithm. Some numerical examples confirm that the proposed method outperforms existing ones.

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