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A dynamic-solver-consistent minimum action method: With an application to 2D Navier-Stokes equations

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Xiaoliang Wan *
于海军 (Haijun Yu)
DOI:10.1016/j.jcp.2016.11.019delete
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This paper discusses the necessity and strategy to unify the development of a dynamic solver and a minimum action method (MAM) for a spatially extended system when employing the large deviation principle (LDP) to study the effects of small random perturbations. A dynamic solver is used to approximate the unperturbed system, and a minimum action method is used to approximate the LDP, which corresponds to solving an Euler-Lagrange equation related to but more complicated than the unperturbed system. We will clarify possible inconsistencies induced by independent numerical approximations of the unperturbed system and the LDP, based on which we propose to define both the dynamic solver and the MAM on the same approximation space for spatial discretization. The semi-discrete LDP can then be regarded as the exact LDP of the semi-discrete unperturbed system, which is a finite-dimensional ODE system. We achieve this methodology for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations using a divergence free approximation space. The method developed can be used to study the nonlinear instability of wall-bounded parallel shear flows, and be generalized straightforwardly to three-dimensional cases. Numerical experiments are presented. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Minimum action method
Rare events
White noise
Colored noise
Finite element method
Numerical adaptivity
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Journal of Computational Physics cover
Journal of Computational Physics
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louisiana state university system
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