Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 3, Pages 341-363
doi:10.1155/MPE.2005.341
A multilevel method of nonlinear Galerkin type for the
Navier-Stokes equations
Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat B.P. 1014, Morocco
Received 21 October 2004
Copyright © 2005 Said El Hajji and Khalid Ilias. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The basic idea of this new method resides in the fact that the major part of the relative information to the solution to calculate is contained in the small modes of a development of Fourier series; the raised modes of which the coefficients associated being small, being negligible to every instant, however, the effect of these modes on a long interval of time is not negligible. The nonlinear Galerkin method proposes economical
treatment of these modes that permits, in spite of a simplified calculation, taking into account their interaction correctly with the other modes. After the introduction of this method, we elaborate an efficient strategy for its implementation.