Computational efficiency and approximate inertial manifolds for a Bénard convection system (Q1322781)

A computational comparison between classical Galerkin and approximate inertial manifold methods is performed for the case of two-dimensional natural convection in a saturated porous material. The computations, supported by physical arguments and an abstract result regarding regularity of solutions to the governing equation, show the limitations of the approximate inertial manifold technique in obtaining improvements over the classical Galerkin method.