Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar

University of Michigan

Winter 2006
Monday, 20 Feb, 4:30-5:30 p.m., 3088 East Hall

On a Compact Scheme for the Navier-Stokes Equations: Convergence Analysis and Numerical Results

Dalia Fishelov

Tel-Aviv University


Abstract

We treat the streamfunction formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. The differential equation and boundary and initial conditions are formulated via the streamfunction only. A compact scheme, which invokes the streamfunction and its gradient at mesh points, is introduced for the streamfunction formulation. Only the eight nearest neighboring points are involved in the discretization. We demonstrate our results on physical problems, such as the driven cavity problem and for image inpainting as well. The convergence of the scheme is proven for the full non-linear Navier-Stokes equations.