Optimal error estimates of the penalty finite element method for micropolar fluids equations

Abstract

An optimal error estimate of the numerical velocity, pressure and angular velocity, is proved for the fully discrete penalty finite element method of the micropolar equations, when the parameters ², ∆t and h are sufficiently small. In order to obtain above we present the time discretization of the penalty micropolar equation which is based on the backward Euler scheme; the spatial discretization of the time discretized penalty Micropolar equation is based on a finite elements space pair (Hh, Lh) which satisfies some approximate assumption.