Numerical analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations

Rannacher, Rolf

Applications of Mathematics, Tome 38 (1993) no. 4-5, pp. 361-380

Abstract (VO)

This paper discusses some conceptional questions of the numerical simulation of viscous incompressible flow which are related to the presence of boundaries.

Détail

DOI : 10.21136/AM.1993.104560

Classification : 65M60, 76D05, 76M10, 76M25
Keywords: incompressibility constraint; Chorin’s projection method; boundary conditions; well-posedness; nonlinear Galerkin method

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