On approximate inertial manifolds to the Navier-Stokes equations (Q757735)

The paper is devoted to the steady approximation of the global attractor for the Navier-Stokes equations in the two-dimensional case. In particular it is considered the analytic manifold which contains all stationary solutions of N-S equations; and it is proved that this manifold is a better approximation for the global attractor, than the manifold introduced by \textit{C. Foias}, \textit{O. Manley} and \textit{R. Temam} [RAIRO, Modelisation Math. Anal. Numer. 22, No.1, 93-118 (1988; Zbl 0663.76054)]. A modified Galerkin approximation is introduced, to study certain bounded invariant sets in the three-dimensional case.