Computing inertial manifolds (Q1848977)

Here, two numerical schemes are discussed that can be used to approximate inertial manifolds within an arbitary degree of accuracy if the existence of the inertial manifolds is given by a standard spectral gap condition. The methods considered are fully numerical, in that they take into account the need to interpolate the approximations of the inertial manifolds between a set of discrete gridpoints. As all the discretisations are refined, the approximations are shown to converge to the true manifold if a slightly strengthened form of the spectral gap condition holds.