Numerical analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations (Q1316584)

The author surveys the state of the art in the field of Galerkin methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The key issues are, as stated by the author: 1. The treatment of the incompressibility constraint by Chorin's projection method: The problem of the nonphysical pressure boundary conditions. 2. The choice of outflow boundary conditions: The problem of well-posedness. 3. The modeling of the nonlinearity: The mechanism behind the success of the nonlinear Galerkin method.