Two level penalty finite element methods for the stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics problem

In the paper we consider the penalty finite element method for the stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problem with a factor of penalty parameter. Stability and convergence of numerical solutions are established. Furthermore, two level penalty methods are also developed for the MHD problem. Our methods consist of solving a nonlinear MHD problem by the usual penalty method on a coarse mesh with mesh size H , and then a linearized MHD problem based on the Stokes, Newton and Oseen iterations on a fine mesh is solved by the penalty method with mesh size h ( h ? H ) , respectively. Stability and error estimates of numerical solutions in two level penalty methods are presented. Finally, some numerical tests are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed algorithms.

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