Coupled Iterative Analysis for Stationary Inductionless Magnetohydrodynamic System Based on Charge-Conservative Finite Element Method

This paper considers charge-conservative finite element approximation and three coupled iterations of stationary inductionless magnetohydrodynamics equations in Lipschitz domain. Using a mixed finite element method, we discretize the hydrodynamic unknowns by stable velocity-pressure finite element pairs, discretize the current density and electric potential by H(div, Omega) x L-2(Omega)-comforming finite element pairs. The well-posedness of this formula and the optimal error estimate are provided. In particular, we show that the error estimates for the velocity, the current density and the pressure are independent of the electric potential. With this, we propose three coupled iterative methods: Stokes, Newton and Oseen iterations. Rigorous analysis of convergence and stability for different iterative schemes are provided, in which we improve the stability conditions for both Stokes and Newton iterative method. Numerical results verify the theoretical analysis and show the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed methods.