A MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ON A STAGGERED MESH FOR NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

In this paper, we introduce a mixed finite element method on a staggered mesh for the numerical solution of the steady state Navier-Stokes equations in which the two components of the velocity and the pressure are defined on three different meshes. This method is a conforming quadrilateral Q1 × Q1 - P0 element approximation for the Navier-Stokes equations. First-order error estimates are obtained for both the velocity and the pressure. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS BY H（div） ELEMENTS

We derived and analyzed a new numerical scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations by using H（div） conforming finite elements. A great deal of effort was given to an establishment of some Sobolev-type inequalities for piecewise smooth functions. In particular, the newly derived Sobolev inequalities were employed to provide a mathematical theory for the H（div） finite element scheme. For example, it was proved that the new finite element scheme has solutions which admit a certain boundedness in terms of the input data. A solution uniqueness was also possible when the input data satisfies a certain smallness condition. Optimal-order error estimates for the corresponding finite element solutions were established in various Sobolev norms. The finite element solutions from the new scheme feature a full satisfaction of the continuity equation which is highly demanded in scientific computing.     

Zero dissipation limit of the compressible heat-conducting navier-stokes equations in the presence of the shock

The zero dissipation limit of the compressible heat-conducting Navier–Stokes equations in the presence of the shock is investigated. It is shown that when the heat conduction coefficient κ and the viscosity coefficient ε satisfy κ = O（ε）, κ/ε≥ c 〉 0, as ε→ 0 （see （1.3））, if the solution of the corresponding Euler equations is piecewise smooth with shock wave satisfying the Lax entropy condition, then there exists a smooth solution to the Navier–Stokes equations, which converges to the piecewise smooth shock solution of the Euler equations away from the shock discontinuity at a rate of ε. The proof is given by a combination of the energy estimates and the matched asymptotic analysis introduced in [3].     

A NOTE ON PRESSURE APPROXIMATION OF FIRST AND HIGHER ORDER PROJECTION SCHEMES FOR THE NONSTATIONARY INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

Projection methods are efficient operator-splitting schemes to approximate solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. As a major drawback, they introduce spurious layers, both in space and time. In this work, we survey convergence results for higher order projection methods, in the presence of only strong solutions of the limiting problem; in particular, we highlight concomitant difficulties in the construction process of accurate higher order schemes, such as limited regularities of the limiting solution, and a lack of accurate initial data for the pressure. Computational experiments are included to compare the presented schemes, and illustrate the difficulties mentioned.     

ON THE ERROR ESTIMATES OF A NEW OPERATE SPLITTING METHOD FOR THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

In this paper, a new operator splitting scheme is introduced for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Under some mild regularity assumptions on the PDE solution, the stability of the scheme is presented, and error estimates for the velocity and the pressure of the proposed operator splitting scheme are given.     

Quadratic Lyapunov Function and Exponential Dichotomy on Time Scales

In this paper, we study the relationship between exponential dichotomy and quadratic Lyapunov function for the linear equation x△=A（t）x on time scales. Moreover, for the nonlinear perturbed equation x△= A（t）x ＋ f（t, x） we give the instability of the zero solution when f is sufficiently small.     

Sto chastic Nonlinear Beam Equations with Levy Jump

In this paper, we study stochastic nonlinear beam equations with Levy jump, and use Lyapunov functions to prove existence of global mild solutions and asymptotic stability of the zero solution.     

FINITE ELEMENTS WITH LOCAL PROJECTION STABILIZATION FOR INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW PROBLEMS

In this paper we review recent developments in the analysis of finite element methods for incompressible flow problems with local projection stabilization （LPS）. These methods preserve the favourable stability and approximation properties of classical residual-based stabilization （RBS） techniques but avoid the strong coupling of velocity and pressure in the stabilization terms. LPS-methods belong to the class of symmetric stabilization techniques and may be characterized as variational multiscale methods. In this work we summarize the most important a priori estimates of this class of stabilization schemes developed in the past 6 years. We consider the Stokes equations, the Oseen linearization and the NavierStokes equations. Furthermore, we apply it to optimal control problems with linear（ized） flow problems, since the symmetry of the stabilization leads to the nice feature that the operations ＂discretize＂ and ＂optimize＂ commute.     

DIRECTIONAL DO-NOTHING CONDITION FOR THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

The numerical solution of flow problems usually requires bounded domains although the physical problem may take place in an unbounded or substantially larger domain. In this case, artificial boundaries are necessary. A well established artificial boundary condition for the Navier-Stokes equations diseretized by finite elements is the “do-nothing” condition. The reason for this is the fact that this condition appears automatically in the variational formulation after partial integration of the viscous term and the pressure gradient. This condition is one of the most established outflow conditions for Navier-Stokes but there are very few analytical insight into this boundary condition. We address the question of existence and stability of weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations with a “directional do-nothing” condition. In contrast to the usual “do-nothing” condition this boundary condition has enhanced stability properties. In the case of pure outflow, the condition is equivalent to the original one, whereas in the case of inflow a dissipative effect appears. We show existence of weak solutions and illustrate the effect of this boundary condition by computation of steady and non-steady flows.     

SPLITTING SCHEMES FOR A NAVIER-STOKES-CAHN-HILLIARD MODEL FOR TWO FLUIDS WITH DIFFERENT DENSITIES

In this work, we focus on designing efficient numerical schemes to approximate a ther- modynamically consistent Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard problem given in [3] modeling the mixture of two incompressible fluids with different densities. The model is based on a diffuse-interface phase-field approach that is able to describe topological transitions like droplet coalescense or droplet break-up in a natural way. We present a splitting scheme, decoupling computations of the Navier-Stokes part from the Cahn-Hilliard one, which is unconditionally energy-stable up to the choice of the potential approximation. Some nu- merical experiments are carried out to validate the correctness and the accuracy of the scheme, and to study the sensitivity of the scheme with respect to different physical pa- rameters.     

MULTIGRID METHOD FOR FLUID DYNAMIC PROBLEMS

This paper covers the dynamics problems. The review and some aspects of main development stages of using Multigrid method for fluid multigrid technics are presented. Some approaches for solving Navier-Stokes equations and convection- diffusion problems are considered.     

A NATURAL GRADIENT ALGORITHM FOR THE SOLUTION OF LYAPUNOV EQUATIONS BASED ON THE GEODESIC DISTANCE

A new framework based on the curved Riemannian manifold is proposed to calculate the numerical solution of the Lyapunov matrix equation by using a natural gradient descent algorithm and taking the geodesic distance as the objective function. Moreover, a gradient descent algorithm based on the classical Euclidean distance is provided to compare with this natural gradient descent algorithm. Furthermore, the behaviors of two proposed algorithms and the conventional modified conjugate gradient algorithm are compared and demonstrated by two simulation examples. By comparison, it is shown that the convergence speed of the natural gradient descent algorithm is faster than both of the gradient descent algorithm and the conventional modified conjugate gradient algorithm in solving the Lyapunov equation.     

Remarks on navier-stokes equations with measures as data

We show the existence of a solution to the Navier-Stokes equation taking the vorticity ω as the unknown: ω_t + Aω + Bω = μ, ω(0) = ω₀. Here, ω₀ and μ are bounded Radon measures. This study is motivated by a numerical approximation which will be given in a forthcoming work [1].     

STRONG APPROXIMATION FOR MOVING AVERAGE PROCESSES UNDER DEPENDENCE ASSUMPTIONS

Let {Xt,t ≥ 1} be a moving average process defined by Xt = ∑^∞ k=0 αkξt-k, where {αk,k ≥ 0} is a sequence of real numbers and {ξt,-∞ 〈 t 〈 ∞} is a doubly infinite sequence of strictly stationary dependent random variables. Under the conditions of {αk, k ≥ 0} which entail that {Xt, t ≥ 1} is either a long memory process or a linear process, the strong approximation of {Xt, t ≥ 1} to a Gaussian process is studied. Finally, the results are applied to obtain the strong approximation of a long memory process to a fractional Brownian motion and the laws of the iterated logarithm for moving average processes.     

Certain Pair of Derivations on a Triangular Algebra

By using properties of triangular algebra, we prove that if derivations D and G on a triangular algebra T satisfy certain generalized identities, then both D and G are zero mappings. As a corollary we get that if D and G are cocentralizing on T, then both D and G are zero mappings.     

EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS RESULTS FOR VISCOUS, HEAT-CONDUCTING 3-D FLUID WITH VACUUM

We prove the local existence and uniqueness of the strong solution to the 3-D full Navier-Stokes equations whose the viscosity coefficients and the thermal conductivity coefficient depend on the density and the temperature. The initial density may vanish in an open set and the domain could be bounded or unbounded. Finally, we show the blow-up of the smooth solution to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in R^n （n 〉 1） when the initial density has compactly support and the initial total momentum is nonzero.     

SUBGENERATORS OF C-SEMIGROUPS ON l^2

This paper gives some results about the subgenerators of special C-semigroups on l^2, partly answers the problem mentioned in [1].     

Global Well-Posedness of Classical Solutions with Large Initial Data to the Two-Dimensional Isentropic Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

We establish the global existence and uniqueness of classical solutions to the Cauchy problem for the two-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with smooth initial data under the assumption that the viscosity coefficient μ is large enough. Here we do not require that the initial data is small.     

THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL OPTIMAL ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF LARGE SOLUTIONS FOR A SEMILINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEM

By Karamata regular variation theory and constructing comparison functions, the author shows the existence and global optimal asymptotic behaviour of solutions for a semilinear elliptic problem Δu = k（x）g（u）, u 〉 0, x ∈ Ω, u｜δΩ =＋∞, where Ω is a bounded domain with smooth boundary in R^N; g ∈ C^1[0, ∞）, g（0） = g＇（0） = 0, and there exists p 〉 1, such that lim g（sξ）/g（s）=ξ^p, ↓Aξ 〉 0, and k ∈ Cloc^α（Ω） is non-negative non-trivial in D which may be singular on the boundary.     

Dynamics of stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a two-dimensional stochastic Navier-Stokes equation on a smooth domain, driven by linear multiplicative white noise. We show that solutions of the 2D Navier-Stokes equation generate a perfect and locally compacting C1,1 cocycle. Using multiplicative ergodic theory techniques, we establish the existence of a discrete non-random Lyapunov spectrum for the cocycle. The Lyapunov spectrum characterizes the asymptotics of the cocycle near an equilibrium/stationary solution. We give sufficient conditions on the parameters of the Navier-Stokes equation and the geometry of the planar domain for hyperbolicity of the zero equilibrium, uniqueness of the stationary solution (viz. ergodicity), local almost sure asymptotic stability of the cocycle, and the existence of global invariant foliations of the energy space.