COMPUTING ILL-POSED TIME-REVERSED 2D NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS, USING A STABILIZED EXPLICIT DIFFERENCE SCHEME MARCHING BACKWARD IN TIME

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December 6, 2019

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Alfred S. Carasso

Abstract

Abstract. This paper constructs an unconditionally stable explicit difference scheme, marching backward in time, that can solve an interesting, but limited class of ill-posed, time-reversed 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes initial value problems. Stability is achieved by applying a compensating smoothing operator at each time step to quench the instability. This leads to a distortion away from the true solution. However, in many interesting cases, the cumulative error is sufficiently small to allow for useful results. Effective smoothing operators based on (−∆) p , with real p > 2, can be efficiently synthesized using FFT algorithms. Similar stabilizing techniques were successfully applied in other ill-posed evolution equations. The analysis of numerical stabilty is restricted to a related linear problem. However, extensive numerical experiments indicate that such linear stability results remain valid when the explicit scheme is applied to a significant class of time-reversed nonlinear 2 Navier-Stokes initial value problems. Several reconstruction examples are included, based on the stream function-vorticity formulation, and focusing on 256 × 256 pixel images of recognizable objects. Such images, associated with non- smooth underlying intensity data, are used to create severely distorted data at time T > 0. Successful backward recovery is shown to be possible at parameter values exceeding expectations.

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Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1080/17415977.2019.1698564

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2D Navier-Stokes equations backward in time, High Reynolds numbers, Stabilized explicit marching difference scheme, Numerical experiments.words. explicit marching difference scheme. Numerical experiments.

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Carasso, A. (2019), COMPUTING ILL-POSED TIME-REVERSED 2D NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS, USING A STABILIZED EXPLICIT DIFFERENCE SCHEME MARCHING BACKWARD IN TIME, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, [online], https://doi.org/10.1080/17415977.2019.1698564 (Accessed April 27, 2024)