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Gradient numerical-analytical method for solution of the navier-stokes equations for a viscous incompressible fluid

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A method is presented for solution of the Navier-Stokes equations in an extremal formulation based on a joint application of Pontryagin's maximum principle and a representation of the unknown functions in the form of power series.

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Abbreviations

x, y:

space coordinates

t:

time

u, v:

horizontal and vertical components of velocity

P:

pressure

Re:

Reynolds number

γ:

boundary of region

un :

projection of velocity vector on normal to boundary of region

s:

arc length of integration contour

tk :

finite time instant

m, ℓ:

number of grid nodes

M, L:

parameters determining the number of nodes of a gridwork

n, k:

power series indices

J0 :

minimizing functional

U, V:

conjugate functions

α:

step multiplier of the conjugate gradient method

p:

iteration number

Literature cited

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  2. A. A. Shmukin, Applied Problems in the Aerodynamics of Aircraft [in Russian], Kiev (1984), pp. 87–93.

  3. L. S. Pontryagin, V. G. Boltyanskii, R. V. Gamkrelidze, and E. F. Mischenko, Mathematical Theory of Optical Processes [in Russian], Moscow (1983).

  4. O. M. Alifanov, Identification of Aircraft Heat Exchange Processes [in Russian], Moscow (1979).

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 730–735, May, 1989.

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Shmukin, A.A., Posudievskii, R.A. Gradient numerical-analytical method for solution of the navier-stokes equations for a viscous incompressible fluid. Journal of Engineering Physics 56, 512–515 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01297596

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