A fully discrete penalty finite element method is presented for the two-dimensional time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations. The time discretization of the penalty Navier-Stokes equations is based on the backward Euler scheme; the spatial discretization of the time discretized penalty Navier-Stokes equations is based on a finite element space pair (Xh,Mh) which satisfies some approximate assumpt...

We investigate the self-similar solutions to the isothermal compressible Navier–Stokes equations. The aim of this paper is to show that there exist neither forward nor backward self-similar solutions with finite total energy. This generalizes the results for the incompressible case in Nečas, J., Ru̇žička, M. & Šverák, V. (1996, On Leray’s self-similar solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. Ac...

We consider two-grid mixed-finite element schemes for the spatial discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. A standard mixed-finite element method is applied over the coarse grid to approximate the nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations while a linear evolutionary problem is solved over the fine grid. The previously computed Galerkin approximation to the velocity is used to linea...

We construct the weakly nonlinear-dissipative approximate system for the general compressible Navier-Stokes system in a periodic domain. It was shown in [11] that because the Navier-Stokes system has an entropy structure, its approximate system will have Leray-like global weak solutions. These solutions decompose into an incompressible part governed by an incompressible Navier-Stokes system, an...

The global-in-time existence of weak solutions to the barotropic compressible quantum Navier-Stokes equations with damping is proved for large data in three dimensional space. The model consists of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity, and a nonlinear third-order differential operator, with the quantum Bohm potential, and the damping terms. The global weak solution...

We consider the Navier-Stokes equation in a domain with irregular boundaries. The irregularity is modeled by a spatially homogeneous random process, with typical size ε≪ 1. In the parent paper [8], we derived a homogenized boundary condition of Navier type as ε→ 0. We show here that for a large class of boundaries, this Navier condition provides a O(ε3/2| ln ε|1/2) approximation in L, instead o...

We investigate the slip boundary condition for flows past a chemically patterned surface. Molecular dynamics simulations show that fluid forces and stresses vary laterally along the patterned surface. A subtraction scheme is developed to verify the validity of the Navier slip boundary condition, locally, for the patterned surface. A continuum hydrodynamic model is formulated using the Navier-St...

This paper introduces two stabilization schemes for the Least Squares Commutator (LSC) preconditioner developed by Elman, Howle, Shadid, Shuttleworth and Tuminaro [SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 27, 2006, pp. 1651–1668] for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. This preconditioning methodology is one of several choices that are effective for Navier-Stokes equations, and it has the advantage of bei...

In this article, we propose to study two issues associated with the use of the incremental projection method for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. The first one is the combination of this time splitting algorithm with an adaptive local refinement method. The second one is the reduction of spurious velocities due to the right-hand side of the momentum balance. We propose a new v...

In this paper, we analyze a tamed 3D Navier-Stokes equation in uniform C-domains (not necessarily bounded), which obeys the scaling invariance principle, and prove the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to this tamed equation. In particular, if there exists a bounded solution to the classical 3D Navier-Stokes equation, then this solution satisfies our tamed equation. Moreover, the exi...