TY - JOUR T1 - Unconditionally Optimal Error Estimates of the Bilinear-Constant Scheme for Time-Dependent Navier-Stokes Equations AU - Yang , Huaijun AU - Shi , Dongyang JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 1 SP - 127 EP - 146 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11 SN - 40 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2007-m2020-0164 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/19973.html KW - Navier-Stokes equations, Unconditionally optimal error estimates, Bilinear-constant scheme, Time-discrete system. AB -

In this paper, the unconditional error estimates are presented for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations by the bilinear-constant scheme. The corresponding optimal error estimates for the velocity and the pressure are derived unconditionally, while the previous works require certain time-step restrictions. The analysis is based on an iterated time-discrete system, with which the error function is split into a temporal error and a spatial error. The $\tau$-independent ($\tau$ is the time stepsize) error estimate between the numerical solution and the solution of the time-discrete system is proven by a rigorous analysis, which implies that the numerical solution in $L^{\infty}$-norm is bounded. Thus optimal error estimates can be obtained in a traditional way. Numerical results are provided to confirm the theoretical analysis.