A model for two coupled turbulent fluids Part III: Numerical approximation by finite elements

Summary.This paper introduces a scheme for the numerical solution of a model for two turbulent flows with coupling at an interface. We consider a variational formulation of the coupled model, where the turbulent kinetic energy equation is formulated by transposition. We prove the convergence of the approximation to this formulation for 2D flows by piecewise affine triangular elements. Our main contribution is to prove that the standard Galerkin - finite element approximation of the Laplace equation approximates in L2 norm its solution by transposition, for data with low smoothness. We include some numerical tests for simple geometries that exhibit the behaviour predicted by our analysis.

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