Long Time Numerical Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations Based on a Sequential Regularization Formulation

  • Authors:
  • Ping Lin;Jian-Guo Liu;Xiliang Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • plin@maths.dundee.ac.uk;jliu@math.umd.edu;lu_xiliang@hotmail.com

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The sequential regularization method is a reformulation of the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations from the viewpoint of constrained dynamical systems or the approximate Helmholtz-Hodge projection. In this paper we study the long time behavior of the sequential regularization formulation. We give a uniform-in-time estimate between the solution of the reformulated system and that of the Navier-Stokes equations. We also conduct an error analysis for the temporal discrete system and show that the error bound is independent of time. A couple of long time flow examples are computed to demonstrate this method.