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Old   March 24, 2013, 10:56
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I am testing a solver for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using manufactured solutions. The code uses a 1st order projection method on staggered grid, very similar to the MAC method. I use 1st order time stepping and second order spatial derivatives.

If I choose a manufactured solution that is divergence-free, all works fine. I get second order convergence for a stationary problem. But if the manufactured solution is not divergence-free, the method drops to 1st order, even though I added the source term for the Poisson equation.

I found some publications that also use divergence-free manufactured solutions, but none explain why. Must the manufactured solution be divergence-free? Isn't it possible to test the code with a more generic solution? It seems intuitive that it should work.

When solving the Poisson equation on a square surrounded by Neumann boundary conditions, I must prescribe the pressure at one point. And that is exactly on that point that the error is big. And the error only shows up when using non-divergence-free manufactured solutions.
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I am testing a solver for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using manufactured solutions. The code uses a 1st order projection method on staggered grid, very similar to the MAC method. I use 1st order time stepping and second order spatial derivatives.

If I choose a manufactured solution that is divergence-free, all works fine. I get second order convergence for a stationary problem. But if the manufactured solution is not divergence-free, the method drops to 1st order, even though I added the source term for the Poisson equation.
If the solution you're using is not divergence free, then it wouldn't satisfy incompressible NS, and an incompressible solver couldn't accurately recreate the solution. Or is there something else I'm missing?

Similarly, your numerical method would have to drop to first order if your solution contains discontinuities, so I wouldn't be surprised to see only first order convergence for any such solution.
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Old   March 25, 2013, 10:20
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If the solution you're using is not divergence free, then it wouldn't satisfy incompressible NS, and an incompressible solver couldn't accurately recreate the solution. Or is there something else I'm missing?
The manufactured solution is not a solution for the original NS equations. A source term must be added to the equations so that it becomes a solution.
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