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11 Least-squares approaches for the 2D Navier–Stokes system

  • Jérôme Lemoine and Arnaud Münch
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Abstract

We analyze a least-squares approach to approximate weak solutions of the 2D Navier-Stokes system. In the first part, we consider a steady case and introduce a quadratic functional based on a weak norm of the state equation. We construct a minimizing sequence for the functional that strongly converges to a solution of the equation. After a finite number of iterates related to the value of the viscosity constant, the convergence is quadratic, from any initial guess. We then apply iteratively the analysis on the backward Euler scheme associated with the unsteady Navier-Stokes equation and prove the convergence of the iterative process uniformly with respect to the time discretization. In a second part, we reproduce the analysis for the unsteady case by introducing a space-time least-squares functional. This allows us to alleviate the smallness property on the data, assumed the steady case. The method turns out to be related to the globally convergent damped Newton approach applied to the Navier- Stokes operator, in contrast to the standard Newton method used to solve the weak formulation of the Navier-Stokes system. Numerical experiments illustrates our analysis.

Abstract

We analyze a least-squares approach to approximate weak solutions of the 2D Navier-Stokes system. In the first part, we consider a steady case and introduce a quadratic functional based on a weak norm of the state equation. We construct a minimizing sequence for the functional that strongly converges to a solution of the equation. After a finite number of iterates related to the value of the viscosity constant, the convergence is quadratic, from any initial guess. We then apply iteratively the analysis on the backward Euler scheme associated with the unsteady Navier-Stokes equation and prove the convergence of the iterative process uniformly with respect to the time discretization. In a second part, we reproduce the analysis for the unsteady case by introducing a space-time least-squares functional. This allows us to alleviate the smallness property on the data, assumed the steady case. The method turns out to be related to the globally convergent damped Newton approach applied to the Navier- Stokes operator, in contrast to the standard Newton method used to solve the weak formulation of the Navier-Stokes system. Numerical experiments illustrates our analysis.

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