Stokes Paradox, Fluid dynamics, Stokes flow, Stream function, Biharmonic equation, Helmholtz equation, Low Reynolds number This paper proposes a solution to Stokes’ paradox for asymptotically uniform viscous flow around a cylinder. The existence of a global stream function satisfying a perturbative form of the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations for low Reynolds number is established. This ...

In this paper we study how to approximate the Leray weak solutions of the incompressible Navier Stokes equation. In particular we describe an hyperbolic version of the so called artificial compressibility method investigated by J.L.Lions and Temam. By exploiting the wave equation structure of the pressure of the approximating system we achieve the convergence of the approximating sequences by m...

Most researches on fluid dynamics are mostly dedicated to obtain the solutions of Navier-Stokes equation which governs fluid flow with particular boundary conditions and approximations. We propose an alternative approach to deal with fluid dynamics using the lagrangian. We attempt to develop a gauge invariant lagrangian which reconstructs the Navier-Stokes equation through the Euler-Lagrange eq...

Navier-Stokes equation. The expression is the nonlinear part of the equation and features in the approximation of the flow’s Reynold’s number (see Remarks 5.2(3), on page 721 of [2]). In other words, we discretize the linearized , non-homogeneous Navier-Stokes problem, representing the 3-D slow flow of a fluid. A typical example of a slow Navier-Stokes fluid flow is ground water through an aqui...

We formulate a stochastic least-action principle for solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, which formally reduces to Hamilton’s principle for the incompressible Euler solutions in the case of zero viscosity. We use this principle to give a new derivation of a stochastic Kelvin Theorem for the Navier-Stokes equation, recently established by Constantin and Iyer, which shows that...

In this paper, we study the Navier-Stokes equation in which the unknown functions are the vorticity and the streamfunction. Our goal is to estimate the long-time innuence of a small error in the initial data. In order to do this, we write down the symmetrized linearized Navier-Stokes equation and we estimate the eigenvalues of the corresponding operator. A comparison between these estimates and...

The Navier-Stokes equations describe a large class of fluid flows but are difficult to solve analytically because of their nonlinearity. We present in this paper a parallel solver for the 3-D Navier-Stokes equations of incompressible unsteady flows with constant coefficients, discretized by the finite difference method. We apply the prediction-projection method which transforms the Navier-Stoke...

In this paper, optimal distributed control of the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations is considered. The control problem involves the minimization of a measure of the distance between the velocity field and a given target velocity field. A mixed numerical method involving a quasi-Newton algorithm, a novel calculation of the gradients and an inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes solver, to find the opt...

The additive turbulent decomposition (ATD) method is a computational scheme for solving the Navier–Stokes equations and related nonlinear dissipative evolution equations. It involves a decomposition of the Navier–Stokes equation into equations for largeand small-scale components similar in spirit, but different in details, to the nonlinear Galerkin methods proposed by Temam and coworkers. In th...

Last week we studied the key concepts of Finite Element Methods, in the context of solving the Laplace equation. We saw the …nite element method arise naturally as an instance of the Galerkin method, a discretization procedure for the corresponding weak formulation. Finally, we learned about error estimates, examples of elements and implementation practices. This week, our main objective is to ...