Acceleration of two-grid stabilized mixed finite element method for the Stokes eigenvalue problem

This paper provides an accelerated two-grid stabilized mixed finite element scheme for the Stokes eigenvalue problem based on the pressure projection. With the scheme, the solution of the Stokes eigenvalue problem on a fine grid is reduced to the solution of the Stokes eigenvalue problem on a much coarser grid and the solution of a linear algebraic system on the fine grid. By solving a slightly different linear problem on the fine grid, the new algorithm significantly improves the theoretical error estimate which allows a much coarser mesh to achieve the same asymptotic convergence rate. Finally, numerical experiments are shown to verify the high efficiency and the theoretical results of the new method.