Approximate continuous data assimilation of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations via the Voigt-regularization with observable data
Abstract
We propose a data assimilation algorithm for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations, based on the Azouani, Olson, and Titi (AOT) algorithm, but applied to the 2D Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations. Adapting the AOT algorithm to regularized versions of Navier-Stokes has been done before, but the innovation of this work is to drive the assimilation equation with observational data, rather than data from a regularized system. We first prove that this new system is globally well-posed. Moreover, we prove that for any admissible initial data, the $L^2$ and $H^1$ norms of error are bounded by a constant times a power of the Voigt-regularization parameter $\alpha>0$, plus a term which decays exponentially fast in time. In particular, the large-time error goes to zero algebraically as $\alpha$ goes to zero. Assuming more smoothness on the initial data and forcing, we also prove similar results for the $H^2$ norm.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1810.10616
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1810.10616
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv181010616L
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs;
- 35A01;
- 35B65;
- 35K40;
- 35K61;
- 35Q35;
- 35Q30;
- 35Q93;
- 76D03