Schwarz Domain Decomposition Methods For The Fluid-Fluid System With Friction-Type Interface Conditions

In this paper we consider a fluid-fluid system coupled with a friction-type interface condition which is described by a jump of the velocities along the tangential interface. Based on domain decomposition, we propose a Schwarz type iterative method to decouple the different physical process in each subdomain occupied by a single fluid, which allows solving in each subdomain only the physical process described by a Stokes problem. Using energy estimate, we prove that the algorithm converges for any traction coefficient. A more detailed analysis based on Fourier analysis shows that the convergence rate depends on both the fluids' properties, the traction coefficient and the time stepsize, but is independent of the spatial mesh. We finally use numerical examples to illustrate the theoretical results. (C) 2021 IMACS. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.