A study of Galerkin method for the heat convection equations (Q720646)

One important direction in the study of various convection problems is the numerical modelling of convection processes [e.g., \textit{V. Ambethkar} and \textit{J. Naval}, Arch. Marine Eng. 5, 28--36 (2005) and \textit{J. Verne} et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2370--2373 (1990)]. It is known that the main theoretical basis of the numerical methods is the proof of convergence of the approximate solution to the exact one of the corresponding differential problem. The authors study here the Galerkin method for the approximate solving of an initial boundary value problem for a non-stationary quasi-linear system which describes the motion of the non-uniformly heated viscous incompressible fluid. The convergence of the Galerkin approximations in a strong norm is established, and also the asymptotic error estimates for the solutions and their derivatives in the uniform norm are obtained.